Shiller P E Quotes

#1. It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

Robert J. Shiller

#2. After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

Alan W. Watts

#4. They're listening to the sun, Charles. Waiting for a new kind of light.

J.G. Ballard

#5. Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Robert J. Shiller

#6. Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

Robert J. Shiller

#7. The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Robert J. Shiller

#8. I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Margaret Cho

#9. Sometimes it's enough just to know that if you believe hard enough and long enough, your wishes can come true.

Mary Higgins Clark

#10. Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

Robert J. Shiller

#11. Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Robert J. Shiller

#12. My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.

Robert J. Shiller

#13. We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

Etel Adnan

#14. Raymond collected expressions. He repeated them in experimental accents, as if learning a tune. He sounded like an Eighteenth Street Mexican when he said cuate, like a Logan Square cubano when he said comemierda.

Sebastian Rotella

#15. In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga,

Nile Rodgers

#16. I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Robert J. Shiller

#17. I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

George Akerlof

#18. Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Robert J. Shiller

#19. I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.

Benjamin Alire Saenz