Reyser Quotes & Sayings

Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years. — Anthony Marra

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company ... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever. — Sam Altman

But, as the results presented in this book (and others) show, we are all far less rational in our decision making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless-they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains. So wouldn't it make sense to modify standard economics and move away from naive psychology, which often fails the tests of reason, introspection, and-most important-empirical scrutiny?

Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave? As I said in the Introduction, that simple idea is the basis of behavioral economics, an emerging field focused on the (quite intrusive) idea that people do not always behave rationally and that they often make mistakes in their decisions. — Dan Ariely

I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer. — Mike Ness

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. — Ernestine Rose

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence. — John Knowles

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty. — Vanessa Lachey

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world. — Pope Francis