"Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and……" — James Surowiecki
"Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller."
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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises.…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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More Ambiguous Quotes
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
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The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If…
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools…
— Carl Sagan
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Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ...…
— Unknown Author
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original…
— G. H. Hardy
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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of…
— Odilon Redon
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous…
— J. Michael Bishop
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The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad…
— Isabelle Huppert
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you…
— Emily Blunt
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
— Brian Eno
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
— Keith Richards
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