"Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live."

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Steven Levitt

#Book Quotes #Simple Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.”
“We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.”
“I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.”
“In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between whatâ€™s regular and whatâ€™s wild. That has always appealed to me.”
“Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.”
“I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.”

Source : Daniel Coyle (2012). “The Little Book of Talent”, p.46, Random House

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