Herbert A. Simon Quotes

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert A. Simon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001

Topics

PovertyAttentionInformationWealth

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

John Ortberg

WorkLearningSoulWorldYouDown

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

Amy Ryan

CharacterIdeasYouWayPrejudice

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

Stephen R. George

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Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

Steven Weber

HappyPeopleBehaviorBad PeopleBad

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

Tory Burch

WomenThinkClothesWantFortune

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

Miroslav Volf

GoodGodGivingCleanNeedNaked

Apple has the radio stations, so I go R&B in the morning, and then I'll go with some hip-hop before the game. But after the game, it's more meditation music. It's not artists; it's more whatever is being played.

Jason Kidd

MusicMorningGameAppleGoHip-Hop

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Josh Peck

LifeExperienceYouArtistKindUse

The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

Derek Walcott

ExperienceDivisionCaribbeanAbsurd

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

Dhani Harrison

MeYouLookSayMoreUsed

If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.

Sean Duffy

HeartPeopleYouWantWhyTalk

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

Sebastian Vettel

PowerExperienceMeTeamChanceBMW

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