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Hans Rosling Quotes

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: swedish
Birth: July 27, 1948 - February 7, 2017

Topics

Impact Easy Fame More Difficult

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

Me Direction Advice Back Television

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Say Reason Always Something Happens

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

Wisdom Results Run Economists Seem

It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.

Colin Kaepernick

Funny People Me I Can Run See

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

School Pride American You Acting

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

School Child Something Disease Stuff

It's going to take baby steps to see a complete turnaround. But there's been such a positive outcome from seeing it at Fashion Week. Plus-size fashion shows are being more welcomed into Fashion Week, and having more plus-size women in major magazines.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Positive Women Baby Fashion Week

I told my wife that since we have a little one on the way, maybe when he gets old enough, instead of just taking a vacation to the beach or Disney World or something like that, we go and do something that actually has an impact on other people. That would be neat for him to experience and for us to do as a family.

Family Beach Experience Wife People

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

Success Happiness Daily Impact Our

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Think Problem Down Poor Talk Next

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

Money Building Bridges Strategy Look

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Fighting Easy Up Press Message

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