"If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model."

-- David Brooks

#Reality Quotes #Fit Quotes #Models Quotes

“As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.”
“Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.”
“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.”
“What is bad about luxury as long as you can afford it?”
“You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.”
“I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.”
“The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.”
“First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.”

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