Stephen J Dubner Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you’re trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that’s what I like to learn. – Stephen J Dubner Chaos Quotes Dissimilar Quotes Economics Quotes Figure Quotes Learn Quotes Perceive Quotes Religion Quotes When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that’s really what faith is. There’s a large place in the world for faith, but when it comes to a scientific, political, and economic issue, dogma is not a very good place to start. When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or – even harder – predict the movements of a hugely dynamic system. They’re like a transplant surgeon trying to simultaneously transplant every failing organ in someone’s body.
Douglass North The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990. – Douglass North
Lisa Vidal When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don’t think about how hard it’s going to be. – Lisa Vidal
Steven Moffat I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it’s the hardest. It’s the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There’s a big button marked ‘fail,’ and that’s when nobody laughs. – Steven Moffat
Jesse Lingard It definitely gives us a lot of confidence to be playing for Manchester United as a youngster, and, as long as you keep working, you are always going to get your chance. – Jesse Lingard
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