Vernon L. Smith Quotes

In economics the tendency of theory to lag behind observation seems to be endemic, and, as theorists, few of us consider this to be a 'terrible state.' But as noted by Lakatos (1978, p. 6), 'where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.'

Vernon L. Smith

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• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Small
  • Never

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Clothes
  • Dead
  • Suit

• China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growth

• The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Like
  • Need
  • Extraordinary

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Emotional
  • Human
  • Page

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Man
  • Space
  • Nothing

• Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ideas

• Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Me
  • Gets
  • Outdoors

• I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Business
  • Never
  • Person

• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Remember
  • Body
  • Slave

• I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Eyes

• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Television

• As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

  

  William James
  • Brain
  • Consciousness
  • Streams

• Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Inspiration
  • Season
  • Paralympics

• In economics the tendency of theory to lag behind observation seems to be endemic, and, as theorists, few of us consider this to be a 'terrible state.' But as noted by Lakatos (1978, p. 6), 'where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.'

  

  Vernon L. Smith