Tim Harford
Related The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something ter... DAVID WALLIAMS CRAIG GROESCHEL LAUREN MYRACLE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS FLANNERY O'CONNOR CHRISTINA ROMER I'm just trying to pass Tim Duncan in championships if I can one day. That's my motivation; ... KAWHI LEONARD CRAIG GROESCHEL ERIC SCHMIDT PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA CHRISTINA ENGELA CHARLES BUKOWSKI VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT POPE FRANCIS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... ARTHUR MILLER C. JOYBELL C. LEWIS CARROLL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance.... PHIL ANSELMO PAUL SAMUELSON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN PATRICK ROTHFUSS CRAIG GROESCHEL C. JOYBELL C. CHLOE THURLOW EVAN DAVIS What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used... WARREN STEPHENS ADAM SCOTT DON RICKLES A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA What keeps the club together is that we are set on a format already proven to be a logical way to ru... BETTY NOSTDAHL A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD BOBBY FLAY Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and... STEPHEN J. DUBNER ZARA LARSSON JOHNNY BENCH For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA TOM HANKS NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE PAT BUCKLEY Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS DAVID CHIPPERFIELD LISA KLEYPAS LOIS LOWRY So much of it is economics. Everything we deal with within a community is, it comes down to, in one ... BRYAN THOMPSON And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then antic... CHRIS ANDERSON To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to ... CARLTON CUSE TIM HARFORD JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY BEAH RICHARDS I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to le... NEIL BURGER DOUGLAS ADAMS I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My ... AARON DOUGLAS CHARLES HORTON COOLEY C. JOYBELL C. DEYTH BANGER We had one guy who came in, a lefty, ... I can't think of his last name. I think I called him Bill a... CHARLIE MANUEL The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN JOHN MUIR PAT CONROY STEVE JOBS JOHN THUNE JIM YONG KIM ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ZSA ZSA GABOR MAE WEST The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of... MATT TAIBBI DENNIS FARINA ANTHONY LICCIONE Historically, it's been hard to make the transition from radio to television and from television to ... MICHAEL HARRISON ALBERT FINNEY So, I called Tim and said, 'You know, I think this is a mistake.' He called back with that response ... CODY KNOTTS CRAIG GROESCHEL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO
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TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD TIM HARFORD It's like an alarm clock's gone off, and I've just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who s... TIM TIM BURTON So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flex... TIM VINE TIM BURTON TIM ALLEN TIM WISE TIM CAHILL I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's ... TIM COOK We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizo... TIM COOK Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. TIM CROUCH TIM BURTON My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu... TIM MURPHY My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they di... TIM GANE TIM TEBOW TIM TEBOW TIM KAINE TIM TEBOW How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When di... TIM REID TIM CAHILL In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific ... TIM BISHOP I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket... TIM MCGRAW TIM DALY TIM TEBOW My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of diff... TIM CURRY TIM BURTON Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to lit... TIM SCHAFER There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hit... TIM WAKEFIELD I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the cultur... TIM COOK TIM COPE So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red. TIM VINE TIM COPE Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwar... TIM VINE TIM ALLEN It turns out that people - in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants ... TIM COOK I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I gu... TIM CONWAY The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were lookin... TIM CONWAY As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was ... TIM SCOTT TIM KAINE TINY TIM TIM DALY TIM GRIFFIN TIM CAHILL TINY TIM The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are ... TIM RYAN Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. TIM VINE Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images a... TIM MURPHY The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to r... TIM FERRISS TIM KAINE TIM HANSEL TIM CAHILL By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and... TIM JOHNSON I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic ... TIM PRATT The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whe... TIM HOWARD I love acting, but it's all just a bonus. TIM VINE To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but v... TIM O'BRIEN TIM DALY TIM HUDSON TIM HUDSON TIM HUDSON TIM HUDSON TIM HUDSON TIM HUDSON After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money a... TIM SCHAFER In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everyth... TIM O'BRIEN The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three... TIM O'BRIEN Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into o... TIM O'REILLY So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ... TIM VINE TIM THARP TIM FARGO TIM WILLOCKS TIM FARGO TIM FARGO TIM BURTON TIM CRAWSHAW TIM FARGO TIM DALY TIM THARP TIM THARP TIM BURTON TIM FOLEY TIM GOULD TIM ROBBINS TIM MCCARVER TIM ROBBINS TIM HANSEL TIM BURTON TIM BELL TIM BERNERS TIM GUNN TIM BURTON TIM CAHILL I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate the... TIM HARDAWAY I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've... TIM DUNCAN I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19... TIM FERRISS TIM ALLEN TIM ALLEN In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chair... TIM HUNT Democrats must adopt a progressive economic message that focuses on large, direct infrastructure inv... TIM RYAN TIM JACKSON TIM ARMSTRONG TIM TEBOW TIM CAHILL TIM BRAY Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country. TIM BISHOP A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation sys... TIM BISHOP As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congre... TIM BISHOP Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen'... TIM O'BRIEN TIM TEBOW When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable... TIM HUELSKAMP TIM KAINE TIM JACKSON TIM ROBBINS TIM GRIFFIN TIM JACKSON TIM KAINE TIM WISE TIM GUNN TIM ALLEN TIM GUNN TIM GUNN TIM ALLEN TIM DALY TIM KAINE TIM BURTON TIM COPE TIM TEBOW TIM TEBOW TIM KAINE A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet s... TIM O'BRIEN TIM HUDSON TIM HOLDEN TIM ARMSTRONG The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the ... TIM HUNT Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the dam... TIM FERRISS TIM GRIFFIN TIM BURTON TIM DALY We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. TIM O'REILLY Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea. TIM O'REILLY There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most p... TIM O'REILLY The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big belie... TIM O'REILLY If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - ev... TIM O'REILLY I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Micros... TIM O'REILLY A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, ... TIM O'REILLY One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom w... TIM O'REILLY So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over ... TIM O'REILLY I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: w... TIM O'REILLY A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coi... TIM O'REILLY It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building... TIM O'REILLY There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. Th... TIM O'REILLY My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting ... TIM O'REILLY The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaborat... TIM O'REILLY Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to peop... TIM O'REILLY One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts,... TIM O'REILLY We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content... TIM O'REILLY This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency... TIM O'REILLY Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovatio... TIM O'REILLY What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. TIM O'REILLY TIM BURTON TIM TEBOW I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet ... TIM O'BRIEN TIM WISE TIM TEBOW Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Wh... TIM O'BRIEN TIM HUDSON TIM HUDSON Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and cr... TIM HOWARD TIM TEBOW Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal. TIM COOK I don't complain when it's sunny. TIM HOWARD TIM TEBOW TIM JACKSON TIM TEBOW TIM CAHILL TINY TIM TIM HETHERINGTON I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success. TIM COOK TIM BURTON You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible m... TIM MATHESON I think there are a lot of things out there that are humorous that people don't realize until yo... TIM CONWAY TIM JACKSON Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a h... TIM O'BRIEN The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, b... TIM RYAN TIM KAINE Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chroni... TIM MURPHY TIM TEBOW TIM KAINE TIM BURTON There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y... TIM ROTH TIM CAHILL TIM ROBBINS
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... 
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy... 
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente... 
Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I k... 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
To love is to act. 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
It is a lie. 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific met... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics ... 
I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever. 
Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular gu... 
When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I a... 
I think life is a chain of events. 
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I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you ... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... 
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectur... 
You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trill... 
In the beginning the Universe was created.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and ... 
I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
I wish I was home", She said miserably. 
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are do... 
I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizi... 
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I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... 
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. 
To err is human, but it feels divine. 
I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but ... 
If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... 
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I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the w... 
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Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life... 
It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. 
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Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and politic... 
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am... 
I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin... 
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. 
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One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's ab... 
A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming... 
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In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of c... 
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It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there'... 
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthu... 
Necessity is the author of change 
I like bothering people and stirring things up. 
I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta. 
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The path to wisdom is paved with humility. 
Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ... 
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. 
Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and... 
Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but ... 
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. 
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. 
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. 
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. 
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Telling lies does not work in advertising. 
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I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. 
A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles 
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I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. 
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It fo... 
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Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's eve...