Nicholas Bloom Quotes

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

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• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Know
  • Moon

• You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Man
  • Effort

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Obsessed

• In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • May
  • Culture

• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Moral

• Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Trust
  • Yourself

• My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Parents
  • Political

• 'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Bad

• The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

  

  Sting The Police

• My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Hope
  • Political

• No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

  

  James Woods
  • Celebrity
  • Celebration

• Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Search

• When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Job

• 'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.

  

  Craig Horner
  • Interesting
  • Magic
  • Legend

• I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Time

• A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

  

  Ely Culbertson

• God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

  

  Meister Eckhart
  • God
  • Heart

• When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Humor
  • Constitution
  • Created

• Church on time, makes me party.

  

  David Bowie
  • Party
  • Religious
  • Religion

• The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

  

  Marion Barry
  • Men
  • Black
  • Sacrifice

• Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

  

  Nicholas Bloom
  • Growth
  • Uncertainty
  • Inequality