Robert Nozick Quotes

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

Robert Nozick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1938 - January 23, 2002

Topics

JobWrinklesThinkYouNewTry

The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that will also hold down investment.

Jerome Powell

GrowthGreatFinancialDownCrisis

The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.

John Delaney

LivingNeedStandardsGroundCompete

Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.

Andrea M. Ghez

BlackUnderstandingPhysicsRight

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

Meg Cabot

CreativeSchoolCollegeWritingHigh

The next wave of the social graph is empowering services like Airbnb and Lyft that give people the chance to have that physical interaction. People are more open to that because of Airbnb. Airbnb took couch surfing and took an additional step.

John Zimmer

StepPeopleChanceWaveMoreOpen

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Stanislav Grof

ExperienceMedicalSchoolSitting

With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.

Shura

ScienceLightWhiteSkinWatching

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

Rob Zombie

KindAnythingBigBig FanFarStuff

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Mo Rocca

MyselfMeSelfFeelImportantNow

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

Joss Whedon

TimeMistakeLearnYouSomething

Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system.

Delilah

LifeChildrenSchoolParentsOpinion

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

Anna Sui

WomanMeObstaclesThinkYouKnow

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