Mullainathan And Shafir Quotes & Sayings

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream. — John Steinbeck

The soldier must say Yes when he thinks Yes. But when many say Yes and think No, when they feel forced to say Yes, though they think No, or when they say Yes for the sake of their careers, their own comfort or self-interest while their consciences tell them No, the point has been reached where true soldiering dies out altogether. And not only soldiering. This is death's great triumph. For when conscience dies, mankind dies with it. — Hans Hellmut Kirst

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told ... — Phil Collins

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. — V.S. Naipaul

Luz's father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I'm pringle. That's kinda like single but hungry — Michael Clifford

Take the example of sugarcane farmers between harvests, a group Mr. Mullainathan and Mr. Shafir followed in subsequent research. He may not have much money in the weeks leading up to harvest time, but he seems to have all the time in the world. Not so. "In a weird way, that's the biggest false illusion people have," Mr. Mullainathan says. "Those farmers sitting on the stoop aren't doing nothing. They're churning." The farmers, in other words, aren't sitting and relaxing. They are sitting and thinking hard about all of their obligations and how they will meet them. — Anonymous

I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense. — Carl Von Clausewitz

In those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him. — Kami Garcia

When I'm asked what my girls will think when they grow up, I'll tell them that they have to keep their clothes on till they're 40. But when they're 40, they can make their own decisions. — Cindy Margolis