"Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of……" — Nate Silver
"Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them."
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75 Quotes by Nate Silver
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold…
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
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One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
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We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
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The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
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I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the…
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses…
— Larry Bird
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will,…
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to…
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
— Muhammad Ali
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place,…
— Chanakya
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