Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.Sendhil Mullainathan
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
Barry Jenkins -
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull -
'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
Magnus Scheving -
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen -
There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
Adam Cohen
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
Dan Quinn -
The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
Rand Paul -
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Parker Posey -
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
Joel Salatin -
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
Peter Carey -
Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.
Ken Salazar -
I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.
Deontay Wilder -
The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.
Frank Tipler -
I don't love being on the road.
Matt Berninger The National -
It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
Mel Brooks -
People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous.
Leila Slimani
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
Antoni Tapies -
Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
Eloisa James -
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.
Sendhil Mullainathan