“If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
― Natural Questions
― Natural Questions
“The purely economic man is indeed close to being a social moron. Economic theory has been much preoccupied with this rational fool.”
― Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
― Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
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