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Tim Harford Quotes

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1973

Topics

Failure Time Inevitable Economy

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

Struggle Happy Me Being Happy Mean

My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.

Heart School Me Divorce Place News

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Life Science Animal Physics Why

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

Stephen Sondheim

Family School Parents People Thought

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

Stanley Kubrick

Car Football Problem Helmet Wall

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

Me Bridges Fresh Keep How Taught

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Roy H. Williams

Money You Buying Yours Like Spent

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

Good Parents Friends Good Friends Up

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Man Suffering Source Against His

Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

Writing Book Doing You Things Got

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Work You Director Kinda

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Roots Why Tell Narrative Monsters

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