Alan Blinder Quotes

#1. Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Gene Wolfe

#2. Stop complaining. Plot your course and start your journey. Adjust your sail. Success is waiting to welcome you.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Was it designed and constructed by the Egyptians, Satan, gods or aliens, and for what purpose?

Robert Jean Redfern

#4. It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

M. M. Mangasarian

#5. If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

Alan Blinder

#6. you don't get far in political discourse with counterfactual arguments that "it would have been even worse.

Alan S. Blinder

#7. Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

Alan Blinder

#8. There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Alan Blinder

#9. I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

Spencer Abraham

#11. Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements.

Truman Capote

#14. "Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

Alan Blinder

#15. If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Patrick Lencioni

#16. In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

Alan Blinder

#17. The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

Jorge Luis Borges

#18. I know this might be breaking news to Nicholas Kristof, but guns being 'more lethal than anything else you have around' is sort of the whole point. The issue should not really be the lethality of the gun, but the but the psychology of the person holding it.

Glenn Beck

#19. The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Alan Blinder

#20. Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Alan Blinder

#22. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Alan Blinder