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Steven Levitt Quotes

The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.

Steven Levitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 29, 1967

Topics

Innovation Challenge Process Risk

I think my dad always saw how happy I was on set.

Meghan Markle

Happy Think Always Saw Set I Think

If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.

Max Martin

Famous You Artist Nobody Way Avoid

I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them.

John Krasinski

Mistakes Mistake You Complicated Way

I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.

John Lewis

Future I Am Hopeful Optimistic Very

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Max Cannon

Work Doing Over Illustration Slowly

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Robert Hunter

Good Character Walk Writing Song

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out comedies, such as the 'Shopaholic' series.

Sophie Kinsella

Name Fast Edge Write Real Humour

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Rosemary Mahoney

Life Best Experience Joy People

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

Mike Birbiglia

Dog Medical School You Go Out

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

Julia Holter

Music Doing Long You Want Whatever

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Dick Cavett

Art Training Years Teaching

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

Chloe Sevigny

Me Always Seem Get Rid Prep