Quotes of: Peter-pan Keyword

It made our presence in the world meaningful; we still served a purpose.

Daimones

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior

Divergent

95% of economics is common sense

Economics: The User's Guide: A Pelican Introduction

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Alexander Hamilton

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

Cynthia Kenyon

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Louis Kahn

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

Man on Wire

The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.

Racing Through the Dark

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Michael Porter

Life wasn't all fucking sunshine and rainbows. Real life was hard.

Hard to Love

I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people.

Nouriel Roubini

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

Peter Bofinger

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.

Peter Boettke

I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

Philippe Petit

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

Philippe Petit

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Philippe Petit

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

Philippe Petit

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

Robert Crumb

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

Sanford I. Weill

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Sanford I. Weill

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Tim O'Reilly