"An incentive is a bullet, a key: an……" — Steven Levitt
"An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation"
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27 Quotes by Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt has 27 quotes on this site.
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Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data…
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After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective,…
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
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The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words:…
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Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way…
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If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times…
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Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
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No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
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I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe…
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Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be…
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More Astonishing Quotes
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
— James Broughton
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so…
— Carl Sagan
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
— William James
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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and…
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell…
— Dannion Brinkley
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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