James Surowiecki Quotes
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I am a just man.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.
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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
