"The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain."

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Source : Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

Elinor Ostrom

#Diversity Quotes #Theory Quotes #Situation Quotes

“I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.”
“Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.”
“Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.”
“There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs degrades themselves and the soldiers around them.”
“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

Source : "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.
“Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.”
“Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.”
“I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.”

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