James Surowiecki Quotes

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

James Surowiecki

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• I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wife

• For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Taken
  • Secret
  • Information

• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Me

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Team
  • Serving

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Life started getting good when I started making money.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Things

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Suits

• My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Happy
  • Parents

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• I'm a very respectful fighter, I don't get out of character and start talking crazy, but if you don't want to fight a fighter, or you don't think it's a good style, or it's just not time, then say that.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Important

• One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Life
  • Different
  • Fall In Love

• You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • History
  • Learning