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.
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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.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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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.
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'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.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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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.
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Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
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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.
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I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.
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The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.
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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.
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I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.
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I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
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While you're pregnant, I suggest that you eat like you regularly do. Yes you can eat a little more, but eat healthier for as long as you can.
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Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
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You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
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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.
