Didier Sornette Quotes

The point is that humans are rarely at their best when they use rational reasoning.

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• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.

  

  Ilya Yashin
  • Violence
  • Will
  • Storm

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Real
  • Education
  • Understanding

• If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Technology
  • Smart
  • Doing

• I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • God
  • Women
  • Hero

• I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Gone
  • Front

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Family
  • Dad

• When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Me
  • Person
  • Starting

• I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Lost
  • Forever

• Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood… In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • May
  • Action
  • Path

• Codeine...bourbon...

  

  Tallulah Bankhead

• Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

  

  Edmund Blair Bolles
  • Meaning
  • Recognition
  • Individuality

• Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Myself
  • Morning
  • Son

• I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

  

  George Stroumboulopoulos
  • Audience
  • Connections
  • Conversations

• The point is that humans are rarely at their best when they use rational reasoning.

  

  Didier Sornette