Pyrrhonian Skeptic Quotes

#1. On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Nate Silver

#2. American society is still puritanical.

Nick Nolte

#3. Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#4. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

Frank J. Barrett

#5. A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

Dena Tyson

#6. A sunflower for my sunflower. To brighten the dark October days you hate so much. Plant some more, and be safe in the knowledge a warm and bright summer awaits.

Cecelia Ahern

#7. One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

Mayim Bialik

#8. If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Daniel Kahneman

#9. Boxes of records made me think that LPs should be outlawed or at least limited to five per person, and I soon came to despise the type who packs even her empty shampoo bottles, figuring she'll sort things out and throw them away once she's settled into her new place.

David Sedaris

#10. Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

Atom Egoyan

#11. Danny's trading life was man versus man, but this felt more like man versus nature: The synthetic CDO had become a synthetic natural disaster.

Michael Lewis