Duflo Esther Quotes

#1. If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.

Jenny Pitman

#2. Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. 'I will take the Ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.' Elrond

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Samuel Foote

#5. I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

Susan Jacoby

#6. After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

Brittany Snow

#7. In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

Esther Duflo

#8. Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Robert Crippen

#9. It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

Randy Pausch

#10. Esther Duflo, a leading randomista. 'Sometimes

Tim Harford

#11. For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.

Esther Duflo

#12. The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

Esther Duflo

#13. The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

Esther Duflo

#14. Birds have wings to fly in the sky; you have an imagination to fly everywhere.

Debasish Mridha

#15. And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do
if there's enough of it
is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

Esther Duflo

#16. The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

Esther Duflo

#17. I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.

Esther Duflo

#18. What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.

Esther Duflo

#19. Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

Esther Duflo

#20. In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

Esther Duflo

#21. An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

John Dewey

#22. Awareness of our problems thus does not necessarily mean that they get solved. I t may just mean that we are able to perfectly anticipate where we will fall.

Esther Duflo

#23. The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

Shirley Brice Heath

#24. I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

Woody Allen

#25. Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

David Dellinger

#26. Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.

Esther Duflo

#27. Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

Esther Duflo

#28. I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.

Esther Duflo

#29. I keep wondering if it'll ever hurt less. This...this hole in our lives." "Oh, I imagine it'll hurt less eventually. I think there will always be a hole, though. But lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it's still complete somehow- still lovely.

Emery Lord