Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes

Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Never
  • Need
  • Motivated

• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Great
  • Father
  • Fear

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Training
  • New
  • Formal

• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Better
  • Literature

• Defending peace is the duty of all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Peace
  • Duty
  • Defending

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Time
  • Job
  • Power

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • More

• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Star
  • Wind
  • Just

• The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Mind
  • Tax
  • Permanent

• I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Love
  • Car

• It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Grow

• Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.

  

  Jason Fried

• Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Heart
  • Kindness
  • Healing

• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • History

• Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • History
  • Students
  • Economic