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Barry Schwartz Quotes

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

Barry Schwartz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 15, 1946

Topics

World Magic Attention Dark Dark Side

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

Jochen Zeitz

Business Travel Think Sustainability

What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

Michael Ignatieff

Strong Place Test Weak Source Where

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Child Me Small Color Loved Lace

I kind of have a uniform for office parties and Christmas parties. What I do is put on a basic tuxedo shirt with a solid navy or black tie, a tweed jacket, a red pocket square, and some sort of fancy shoe or velvet slipper.

Michael Bastian

Red Black Uniform Christmas Shoe

People are made up of flaws.

Amanda Seyfried

People Flaws Up Made

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Shirley Temple

Work Day Responsible Seventeen Hour

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.

Robert D. Kaplan

Decision Training Fighting Giving

Family is whatever you say it is.

Rumaan Alam

Family You Say Whatever

My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?

Josh Tillman

Music People Me Think Upset Get

We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.

Doug Ducey

Job Bureaucracy Teachers Empower Our

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

Chris Hemsworth

Actor Way Director Relaxed Working

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

Bruce Oldfield

Best You Look Aim Up Little