James Heckman Quotes
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.
Quotes to Explore
-
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
-
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
-
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
-
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
-
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
-
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
-
You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
-
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
-
I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
-
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
-
I've been training quite hard.
-
I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
-
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
-
I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
-
I was born with an evil face.
-
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
-
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
-
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
-
I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.
-
First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
-
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
-
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.
