Roger Lewin Quotes

#1. Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

Roger Lewin

#2. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

Jo Coudert

#3. I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

Sean Pertwee

#4. We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

Shimon Peres

#5. You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

Roger Lewin

#6. This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

Laura Moriarty

#7. When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

Bob Newhart

#8. Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Roger Lewin

#9. Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

Hillary Clinton

#10. Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.

Patri Friedman

#11. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

#12. Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Roger Lewin

#13. The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#14. Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Russell M. Nelson

#15. The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.

Roger Lewin