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

• 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

• 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

• I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Inspiration

• All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

  

  David Attenborough
  • People

• The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Work
  • Important
  • Reading

• The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Movie
  • Control

• But don't expect every game to be like this. The next game will not be like this.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Game
  • Like
  • Expect

• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Holidays

• My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Best

• 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