Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

#1. If you stand behind a closed door and try to hear a private conversation not intended for your ears, you're most likely to hear something derogatory about yourself." From A Good Girl

Chandana Roy

#2. Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

Bruce Nauman

#3. I graduated from high school and couldn't find a job, which is when I decided to set up as a doctor.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#4. Mood can be as important as sense.

Anne Sexton

#5. We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#6. The poor are no less rational than anyone else - quite the contrary. Precisely because they have so little, we often find them putting much careful thought into their choices:They have to be sophisticated economists just to survive.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#7. Blake gave Selena a nudge. Remember what I taught you, itsy-bitsy babe-ette.

A&E Kirk

#8. How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#9. For example, people who don't know how to drive may nevertheless want to drive their car. But society feels that it is better if they don't, because of what it means for the rest of us. A free market in driver's licenses obviously cannot solve this problem.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#10. If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#11. I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#12. Human emotions are our devils," Cheveyo said. "They tease us with things we can't have, torture us with feelings we can't act on. They cause physical pain.

Jaime Rush

#13. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#14. When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

Witi Ihimaera

#15. She a patient waitin in my room

Drake

#16. I'm not scared of flying. I'm scared of sharks, hurricanes, and false imprisonment. I'm scared that I will never do anything of value with my life. But I'm not scared of flying.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#17. It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in some cases all of the above).

Arthur Graham

#18. It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less powerful in mind. Power to the people, but not all the power.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#19. The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#20. What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

William Penn

#21. Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#22. You can become very reclusive in Hollywood. This gave us permission to be able to open up and be intimate with somebody that you might not normally be kind of brave enough or confident enough to do so with.

Evan Rachel Wood

#23. There is always some cheap pleasant thing to tempt you.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#24. There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

Bruce Forsyth

#25. If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

Merlin Mann