Brian Christian Quotes

Information Cascades: The Tragic Rationality of Bubbles Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Food
  • Creative
  • Fresh

• Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Power
  • Attitude
  • Unique

• That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Time
  • Man
  • Makeup

• I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • School
  • Done

• Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • God
  • Tired

• And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • History
  • Interesting

• The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.

  

  Kalidasa
  • She
  • Song
  • Moving

• Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.

  

  Ludwig Tieck
  • Love
  • Knows
  • Spring

• Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • Childhood

• I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot measures) before I went to Mexico. Anybody could have read those tea leaves.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • I Think
  • Mexico
  • Tea Leaves

• Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Evil

• The majority of my work is about preparation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Preparation
  • Majority

• I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.

  

  George Michael
  • America
  • England
  • Majority

• I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Disease

• A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

  

  Albert Kesselring
  • Leader
  • Situation
  • Court

• Information Cascades: The Tragic Rationality of Bubbles Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Majority
  • Information Cascades
  • Tragic Rationality of Bubbles