W. Brian Arthur Quotes
The invisible hand is not perfect. Indeed, the invisible hand is a little bit arthritic ... I'm a believer in free markets, but I think we need to be less naïve. We need to accept that markets give us pretty good solutions, but occasionally they will lock in something inferior.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I'm a real romantic.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The fans treated me royally.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
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I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
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We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
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I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.
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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.
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The invisible hand is not perfect. Indeed, the invisible hand is a little bit arthritic ... I'm a believer in free markets, but I think we need to be less naïve. We need to accept that markets give us pretty good solutions, but occasionally they will lock in something inferior.
