Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.
Don't you understand Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!
But people tend to forget what isn't in front of their faces, and most of them are too stupid to read their history.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
