Mirrlees Theory Quotes

#1. Margaretha suddenly plastered herself against his chest, burying her face in his shoulder and clinging to him with one hand, while she held the torch in her other hand away from them. He wrapped his arm around her, to protect her.

Melanie Dickerson

#2. Every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

#3. May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

Plato

#4. Children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

Nan Fairbrother

#5. Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. Income inequality increased quite sharply in the United States during the 1920s, however, peaking on the eve of the 1929 crash with more than 50 percent of national income going to the top decile -

Thomas Piketty

#7. Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power

F. William Engdahl

#8. It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

Adrian Grenier

#9. common problem people have is discerning when a dream or vision is to be taken symbolically (as a parable) and when it is to be taken literally. As

Praying Medic

#10. Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating being on the ground. Especially with the appearance of that red cloud.

Peter F. Hamilton

#11. I love Alfonso Cuaron.

Gerard Way

#12. After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Bruce Springsteen

#13. Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Ringo Starr

#14. This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.

Kurt Vonnegut