Nicholas Bloom Quotes

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

Nicholas Bloom

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• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• 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

• Let's be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Athlete

• 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

• There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.

  

  Jerry Oppenheimer
  • Family
  • Black
  • Paris

• I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Time
  • Quality

• With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo in my veins red life might stream again,And thou be conscience-calm'd - see here it is -I hold it towards you.

  

  John Keats
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Wish

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

  

  Nicholas Bloom
  • Growth
  • Uncertainty
  • Inequality