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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Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
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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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Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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I'm not a big believer in the idea of genre - I'm a fan of any writer who can pull me into compelling characters and stories - but I can't imagine I'll start writing domestic dramas any time soon.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
