William Browne Quotes

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

William Browne

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• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Goals

• My parents have always been very open.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Open

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
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  • Shalt

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.

  

  Vijay
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Taken

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wait

• Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• By being friends with all, we are not alone.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Being

• I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fear
  • Idea
  • Television

• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Musicians

• When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Children
  • Done
  • Revolution

• From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Learning
  • Year
  • Research

• Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Woman
  • Confidence
  • Beauty

• When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Business
  • Management

• Said one among them - 'Surely not in vain My substance of the common Earth was ta'en And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Earth

• I'm not a perfect person who doesn't mess up, eat bad, not work out - I do all those things. It's just for the most part, when I'm working, I don't feel like I have the choice. I have to bring my A-game.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Sunshine

• I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Why
  • Natural
  • Big

• A science fiction movie? I don't know. I think I have made one already... Chasing Amy. Because you go ask any lesbian, that'll never happen. Even if, and probably especially because, the dude is Ben fucking Affleck.

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Lesbian

• Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Engineering

• Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

  

  William Browne
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Social