"The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it."

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Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2014). “Think Like a Freak: Secrets of the Rogue Economist”, p.28, Penguin UK

Steven Levitt

#Keys Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Feedback Quotes

“Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.”
“We notice a bee struggling inside a flower, or the smile of a woman as she passes us on the street, and for that tiny fraction of a second we understand what it means to be alive in the world, and then the moment passes, and we start worrying about our bills again.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.”
“Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.”
“The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!”
“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”
“The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase.”

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