Emily Oster Quotes

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

Emily Oster

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• I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Life
  • Value
  • Financial

• To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Value
  • News
  • Tin

• There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Value
  • Eye
  • Beauty

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Value
  • Heroism

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Best
  • Value

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Value
  • Hair
  • Unique

• My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Value
  • Seriously

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Today
  • Question
  • Value

• I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Value

• What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • House
  • Focus

• Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Men
  • Value
  • Fighting

• Your cheatin' heart, will make you weep. You'll cry and cry, and try to sleep. But sleep won't come, the whole night through. Your cheatin' heart, will tell on you.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Sleep

• My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Study
  • Obvious

• The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Good

• The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Value