Avinash Dixit Quotes

Putting yourself in others’ shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do.

Avinash Dixit

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• To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Important
  • Children
  • Family

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Power
  • Guys
  • Fine

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Picture

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Past

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wrong

• I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Live
  • Sea

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Night
  • Black

• Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Values
  • Terrorism
  • Attack

• There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Different
  • Play
  • Actor

• When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happened
  • Before
  • Punk

• No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Thought

• My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Business
  • Road
  • Childhood

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Conditions
  • Farmer
  • Predict

• I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Done
  • Influence
  • Greek

• Putting yourself in others’ shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do.

  

  Avinash Dixit
  • Influence
  • Predict
  • Putting