“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Don’t build a watch; tell voters the time.”
― Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves
― Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
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“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
― Essays on Economics and Economists
― Essays on Economics and Economists
“The way to get to the top of the heap in terms of developing original research is to be a fool, because only fools keep trying. You have idea number 1, you get excited, and it flops. Then you have idea number 2, you get excited, and it flops. Then you have idea number 99, you get excited, and it flops. Only a fool would be excited by the 100th idea, but it might take 100 ideas before one really pays off. Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through. God rewards fools.”
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