Vernon L. Smith Quotes

Even though Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century who saw what must be the mainsprings of the extended order, Mises was the choice technician, and no one was better at articulating the primacy of the individual and the need to define and nurture individual rights.

Vernon L. Smith

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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Want
  • Career
  • Kind

• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Like
  • Worry
  • Too Much

• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Everything
  • Talk
  • Only

• We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Desire
  • Red
  • Alert

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Good
  • Great
  • Best

• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Study

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
  • Tastes

• Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Comedy
  • Basically

• I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Great
  • Why

• I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
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• I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Early
  • Page

• This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God

• Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?

  

  Paracelsus
  • School
  • Nature
  • Enemy

• You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Good
  • God
  • Long

• I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • People
  • Light
  • Hurt

• Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.

  

  Antonio Negri
  • Innovation
  • Expression
  • Cooperation

• Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Justice

• If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Dead

• I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Future
  • Results
  • Events

• Even though Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century who saw what must be the mainsprings of the extended order, Mises was the choice technician, and no one was better at articulating the primacy of the individual and the need to define and nurture individual rights.

  

  Vernon L. Smith