Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
I have more influence now than when I had the power.
It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.
If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.
Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
I think nothing's better than lots of water and a good night's sleep to rejuvenate yourself.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine!
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
In many cases, an expansion of Medicaid will not only drive taxpayer costs but will deliver lower-quality care than what they have today.
I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
