"The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions."

-- Nate Silver

#People Quotes #Kind Quotes #Predictions Quotes

“Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.”

Source : "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“Be an all-out, not a hold-out.”
“There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.97, New York Review of Books
“Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.”
“When you're shiny, everyone wants to stand next to you.”
“I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.”
“My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.”
“We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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