Benabou And Tirole Quotes & Sayings

In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads. — J.G. Ballard

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live. — Charlotte Mason

Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people. — Sharon Stone

According to a 2009 Harvard Medical School study, as many as 45,000 people die annually in the United States because they lack health insurance. As one of the study's coauthors pointed out, this works out to about one death every twelve minutes. It's — Naomi Klein

A great idea will remain only that, just a great idea, unless you put action behind it. — Sherry Gareis

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.' — Daniel Dennett

Other than the love of God; the greatest love is self love. You have to love yourself more than you love someone else in order to succeed in a prosperous life. — Barbara Hart

To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves! — Lao-Tzu

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty. — Neil Gaiman

Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it. — Sam Walton

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful. — Robert Ferrigno

I would define an asshole as anyone who chooses to make the lives of others less pleasant for reasons that don't appear productive or necessary. — Scott Adams

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money. — Mason Cooley

I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. — John Lasseter