Brian Christian Quotes

If changing strategies doesn’t help, you can try to change the game. And if that’s not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself.

Brian Christian

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• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Public
  • Go
  • Thinks

• I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Better
  • Fascinating

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Interesting
  • Human
  • Living

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Soul
  • Control
  • Failure

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Time
  • Real
  • Stage

• Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Single

• There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Remember

• The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Decision

• My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Today

• Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

  

  Elizabeth A. Sherman

• I have always seen Drogba as the example to follow in terms of a centre-forward. He was strong and scored loads of goals, and he was a quality player.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Strong
  • Quality
  • Player

• I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Boy

• You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Done

• I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Game

• Every game, I have to make the best decision. I repeat: my players must be happy to stay in Chelsea and to play for Chelsea and to play for our fans. They must be happy if they start the game or if they stay on the bench and come on.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Happy
  • Game
  • Decision

• I don't like to tell lies.

  

  Hal Ashby
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Tell

• To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • Mind

• We are all part of the ecosystem.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Ecosystems

• If changing strategies doesn’t help, you can try to change the game. And if that’s not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Game
  • Control
  • Strategies