Shiller Learning Quotes & Sayings

I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing. — Yogi Berra

For everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth. — Ruskin Bond

A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans. — Jane Hirshfield

Fearing one enemy too much may lead you right into the arms of another. — M.B. Watson

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks. — John Kruk

I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent. — Daniel L. Doctoroff

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. — David Bronstein

There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust. — Wayne Knight

Stubbornness is not firmness. — Friedrich Schiller

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric. — Sir Mix-a-Lot

Mrs. Casnoff made me write a statement to the Council a few weeks after it happened. Everything's in there."
"I read that. And neither I,nor the rest of the Council, believe it contains the entire truth."
I made a sound that I'd like to say was a cry of indignant, but it was actually closer to a bleat. Probably because Dad was right: that stupid statement didn't even begin to touch the whole truth.
"Your entanglement with Archer Cross-"
"We were never entangled," I spluttered. — Rachel Hawkins

There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight. — Joseph Stiglitz

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning. — Suzanne Gordon

For when people leave our company in our time we are never certain of seeing them again, or seeing them unaltered. — Michael Ondaatje