Anat R. Admati Quotes
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
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I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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... Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather. They're the faces of the stranger and we love to try them on.
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He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that.
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Nature loves to hide.
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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People make a lotof stupid assumptions about me when they hear my name.
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Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.
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I want answers now or I want them eventually!
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The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.
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Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
