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Tyler Cowen Quotes

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Tyler Cowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 21, 1962

Topics

Discipline People Need Pure Us Role

I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

Joanna Lumley

Good Forward Thinking You Bad Will

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

John Grisham

Lawyer Years Fiction Playing Started

I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?

Andrea Riseborough

Moment Ready Anything Us Sure Ripe

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Maude Adams

Failure Lady First Complete Made

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

Jeffrey Pierce

Find Choice Know Watch Valuable

When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence.

Mary Pilon

Police New York City Help Year New

I'm here to sing.

Little Richard

Here Sing

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

Joss Whedon

You Want Vampire Fiction Own Take

'Dance Moms' was one of the best experiences I've ever had in my life!

JoJo Siwa

Life Best Dance My Life Experiences

I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

Allan Savory

Life Training War People Game Army

Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so much that they don't need to be paid fairly. It's this sense of, 'Oh well, labor and love are two different things.'

Alissa Quart

Work Love Labor Why Need Workers

My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

Martin Freeman

Love Job People World Back I Can