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

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

Cathy O'Neil

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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

• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Year
  • Poker

• 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

• If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Food
  • Lost

• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • May
  • Married
  • Three

• 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 was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Real

• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Learning
  • Teacher

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

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Teacher
  • Able
  • Including