David Autor Quotes

Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.

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• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed

• Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Essential

• The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • Great
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Caring

• If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Change
  • Try
  • Changing

• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • You
  • Thought

• I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Jewish

• I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Say
  • Feet
  • Six

• I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Think
  • Know
  • Box

• I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Romantic

• The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Man
  • Habit

• You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Hope

• Everybody knows that you love me baby Everybody knows that you really do Everybody knows that you've been faithful Ah give or take a night or two Everybody knows you've been discreet But there were so many people you just had to meet without your clothes And everybody knows

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • People
  • Night
  • Baby

• Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

  

  Edward VIII
  • King

• For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. ... Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Character
  • History

• My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Writing
  • Passion

• You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • People
  • Forever

• When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Health
  • Single
  • Mom

• The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Civilization
  • Public
  • Measure

• There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • People
  • Career

• Most of us learn to trust, not because we’re noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don’t have any other choice.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Trust
  • Learn
  • Choice

• Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.

  

  David Autor