Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wren Elhai

We acknowledge that we're not getting the full picture, but at least we get close. We acknowledge our biases and try to work past them.

Tim Wise

There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

Alan Wallace

The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you want to promote certain kids.

Allen Wallace

The existence of biases hurts recruiting ... intentionally overlooking some things just because you want to promote certain kids.

Keith Stanfield

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

Billy Beane

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Geoff Mulgan

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Travis Bradberry

When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases that bosses have about what makes someone promotable. You're already doing the hard work, so why not frame your effort in such a way that it increases your chances of obtaining the position you want?

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Deborah Levine

We want to raise awareness. For those who find out they are positive, we want to get them into care. For those who are negative, but are involved in high-risk behavior, we want to get them into prevention programs so that they learn to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there who don't think they are at risk.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Jamie Carragher

We're involved in six this year and this is the first.

John Tortorella

We're getting ready for playoffs. I'm not going to get too involved in this game. ... We'll be ready to play. We're right where we want to be.

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Dana Holgorsen

We're completely comfortable with what our roles are right now. Mike's heavily involved in the offense, but he values my opinion and Sonny's opinion. I'm comfortable with what we're doing.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Pat Summitt

I thought she was tremendous when she settled down.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Haley Barbour

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Dennis Friestad

There were too many mismatches. There were too many 12th graders versus freshmen.

Mike Delahanty

You have to see how much (it costs) to prevent, versus how much you actually lose.