"Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets……" — Steven Levitt
"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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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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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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The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be…
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More Beforehand Quotes
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one of 143 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken…
— Winston Churchill
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
— Wilkie Collins
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
— Sun Tzu
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
— John Selden
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
— Saint Augustine
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
— Cindy Sherman
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