Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

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• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Flying
  • Line
  • Desk

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Great
  • Family
  • Kids

• There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • True
  • Small

• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Control
  • Destiny

• Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

  

  Lance Loud
  • May
  • Mother
  • Parents

• We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Theater
  • Escape
  • Mine

• How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • King

• If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist’s activity. . . . . In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People

• I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Beautiful

• You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Responsibility

• I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Pretty

• I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Time

• I just really work hard on myself every day.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Work

• You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

  

  Steve Stivers
  • Needs
  • Return
  • Capital

• No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

  

  William James
  • Teacher
  • Literature
  • Philosophy

• A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself.

  

  Robert Woodrow Wilson
  • Earth
  • Atmosphere
  • Ground

• I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Teacher
  • Explore
  • Happening

• I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

  

  Usher
  • Great
  • Children
  • Environment

• You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Teacher
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