Richard Thaler Quotes
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
Quotes to Explore
-
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
-
I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
-
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
-
I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
-
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
-
My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.
-
It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.
-
A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
-
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.
-
The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.
-
At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
-
You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
-
Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
-
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
-
I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
-
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
-
The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.
-
When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.
-
On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
-
When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
-
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
-
If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
-
The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
-
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
