Myerson Quotes

#1. Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

Eric Maskin

#2. To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Bess Myerson

#3. Instead of complaining about your situation, actually do something about it. Playing "poor me" just ain't sexy.

Miya Yamanouchi

#4. You cannot be beautiful and hate.

Bess Myerson

#5. You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one.

Confucius

#6. The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Bess Myerson

#7. I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Bess Myerson

#8. A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Baltasar Gracian

#9. You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.

Bess Myerson

#10. I really don't like talking about diets.

Bess Myerson

#11. I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Bess Myerson

#12. Trouble is , he says, you think you know someone - you could swear you knew what they were capable of - and then they go and suprise you. Human nature.

Julie Myerson

#13. It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#14. At heart, the mobile concept is about being in control - as a separate and distinct individual. This is the basis of mobilising the concept of communication - that it's an activity undertaken by an individual, over which that individual seeks control. (20)

George Myerson

#15. I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

Alanis Morissette

#16. All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

Bess Myerson

#17. Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.

Bess Myerson

#18. It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

Gale Anne Hurd

#19. Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Bess Myerson

#20. You can't process me with a normal brain.

Charlie Sheen

#21. How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!

Mark Steyn

#22. People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

Bess Myerson

#23. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.

Elizabeth Spencer

#24. Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being
being quiet, being grateful.

Bess Myerson

#25. Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

Abraham Myerson

#26. The pleasure of praise and reward must energize, the pain of blame and punishment. must teach, else teacher and society have misused these social tools.

Abraham Myerson

#27. I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

Bess Myerson

#28. Spend all you have for loveliness.

Sara Teasdale

#29. Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

Bess Myerson

#30. The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.

Emily Hahn

#31. You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Bess Myerson

#32. In the United States, the more common way to initiate change has been to have consultants come in who "borrow your watch to tell you what time it is

Paul Myerson

#33. We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

Abraham Myerson

#34. The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Tom Kelley

#35. Men go after me, and I choose among them.

Bess Myerson

#36. Heather Fae Brooks believes love can find you anywhere, anytime, any age. If you haven't found your Happily Ever After yet, just keep opening yourself to the universe. But, remember, love yourself as well.

Heather Fae Brooks

#37. The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

Abraham Myerson

#38. A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely, finds a freedom from distraction that leads to clear views of life and a proper expression.

Abraham Myerson

#39. I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

Bess Myerson

#40. I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Bess Myerson

#41. Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

Caroline Rhea