"The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day."

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Source : "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

Emily Oster

#Keys Quotes #Data Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it”
“I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.”
“It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.”

Source : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.49, Harvard University Press
“Career-wise, I was not the most naturally talented ice skater. Of course I had a knack for it , but practice was always the answer for me. I needed to put in the time to get back the confidence that led me to Olympic gold.”

Source : "Tara Lipinski: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.”

Source : Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons
“Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.”
“Her handwriting was curious Â— small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).”
“My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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