Ambrit Industries Quotes & Sayings

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery. — E. J. Hughes

Because economists go through a similar training and share a common method of analysis, they act very much like a guild. The models themselves may be the product of analysis, reflection, and observation, but practitioners' views about the real world develop much more heuristically, as a by-product of informal conversations and socialization among themselves. This kind of echo chamber easily produces overconfidence - in the received wisdom or the model of the day. Meanwhile, the guild mentality renders the profession insular and immune to outside criticism. The models may have problems, but only card-carrying members of the profession are allowed to say so. The objections of outsiders are discounted because they do not understand the models. The profession values smarts over judgment, being interesting over being right - so its fads and fashions do not always self-correct. — Dani Rodrik

Fate has a way of letting us know when we have screwed up by turning everything into an uphill battle. — Ronnie Schiller

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never. — Montgomery Clift

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist! — Tallulah Bankhead

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film. — Akira Kurosawa

Daemon was a total babe, but he was stab-worthy, which at times zeroed out the babe part. Not always, though. — Jennifer L. Armentrout