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George Stigler Quotes

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

George Stigler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 17, 1911 - December 1, 1991

Topics

Friend Faith Director Destroyed

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

Poetry Inquiry Poem Exciting Agent

If you're confident, then you don't feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they're afraid of admitting their weaknesses.

Jen Sincero

Learning Yourself People Confident

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Decision Yourself Problem Solution

After making the 'Occupy' movie, when you finish watching the film, you want to take a hot shower. You want to go home and shower because you've just spent an hour and fifteen minutes with the greasiest, dirtiest people you will ever see.

Steve Bannon

Home People You Go Want Will

Look at the greatest dressers in history - Philadelphia socialite and diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, Sir Anthony Eden, Fred Astaire, the Duke of Windsor, John F. Kennedy, and Gary Cooper - they all sport the well placed pocket adornment.

Roger Stone

History Look Philadelphia Greatest

Art can only be taught by artists.

Ruth Asawa

Art Artists Only Taught

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

Judith Moore

Sad People Me Sorry Feel You

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

Dick Cavett

Mistake Thought Doing You Talk Show

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Carter

Learning Me Fly Airplane Thinking

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

Christopher Buckley

Business Way Spaceship Lobbyists

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

Bradley Cooper

Me Someone Guilt Say Because Favor

We don't want to be part of some Tidal 'streaming revolution,' nor do we want to be Taylor Swift and be anti-it.

Winston Marshall

Revolution Want Streaming Some Part