"Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much."

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Source : "Wonkbook: Ben Bernanke’s surprisingly excellent, radical speech" by Ezra Klein, Evan Soltas, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

Ben Bernanke

#Past Quotes #Choices Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything”
“I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.”
“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.”
“I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.”
“You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'”
“The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.”
“Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.”

Source : Oral Roberts (2011). “When You See the Invisible, You Can Do the Impossible”, p.67, Destiny Image Publishers
“We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.”

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