Ostrom Quotes

#1. When I'm out the country, niggas call me Neeki. Hi, how are you? Yes, it's nice to meet me.

Nicki Minaj

#2. all good books are bad!

Elinor Ostrom

#3. Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

Frans De Waal

#4. I'm so not into being emaciated.

Meredith Ostrom

#5. When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.

Meredith Ostrom

#6. Driven by a concern with institutions, we re-enter the world of the behavioralists. But we do so not in protest against the notion of rational choice, but rather in an effort to understand how rationality on the part of individuals leads to coherence at the level of society. (Bates 1988, p. 399)

Elinor Ostrom

#7. There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

Elinor Ostrom

#8. In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Elinor Ostrom

#9. I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

Gene Littler

#10. Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of its limits.

Elinor Ostrom

#11. As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.

Elinor Ostrom

#12. John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Meredith Ostrom

#13. I can be very messy and disorganized. And I don't throw away anything.

Meredith Ostrom

#14. At times I ask myself if I shouldn't be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

Meredith Ostrom

#15. People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!

Meredith Ostrom

#16. Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Elinor Ostrom

#17. The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

Elinor Ostrom

#18. Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

Edward Thorndike

#19. After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.

Alexandre Dumas

#20. If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

Edmund Waller

#21. I'm too sensitive and too sincere.

Meredith Ostrom

#22. Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

Elinor Ostrom

#23. Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

Jacques Derrida

#24. I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Kathy Bates

#25. Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.

Elinor Ostrom

#26. What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Elinor Ostrom

#27. Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than
broken down.

Tennessee Williams