Eric Maskin
Related DEAN KAMEN When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex... NICOLE WILLIAMS If you are working on two things at once, you have to get the first thing out of your memory before ... BOSCO TJAN DEMETRI MARTIN You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get... ALAN CUMMING LARRY PAGE TIMOTHY LEARY I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away ... RIAN JOHNSON HOPE SOLO When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. THE TRUTH Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. Wh... NATE CORDDRY WILLIAM SAFIRE WILLIAM SAFIRE When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an... CHRIS PRATT If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you mi... USHER If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the s... JOSEPH MORGAN CARINE ROITFELD HALE IRWIN You should not think too much on things that do not work in your life, this can affect the gears of ... DAVI OLIVEIRA Like you shift the gears of your car, you must learn to shift the gears of your life.
Sometimes you ... DR. VINOD B. NAIR If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, 'I've gotta go on this.'... EVAN PETERS CRAIG GROESCHEL Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just s... CHRIS PRATT If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you'... ROBERT CRUMB Essentially, if you get a heavy metal stuck on DNA, you can get a mutation. DIANE STEARNS MARIA SHRIVER If you do your homework and do your due diligence, you shouldn't get stuck with one of them. DAWSON GRIMSLEY RICHARD P. FEYNMAN I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That'... ADRIAN PETERSON One of the fascinating things about this job is that you can work in so many different settings and ... DR. LEMMIETTA MCNEILLY If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're proba... PATTI STANGER If you get on the wrong side of one, you can be stuck there for ten hours (because of the wind patte... PAUL CAYARD DEAN MARTIN WHITFIELD DIFFIE BOB NEWHART MARGARET ATWOOD JOYCE MEYER LOUIS C. K. I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your ca... DANA PERINO JEFF BEZOS TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constant... MELISSA ROSENBERG If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest. CHUCK PAGANO One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move. MARAT SAFIN When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is anot... WILLEM DAFOE They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of... DANIEL YANEZ The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you'... JASON CALACANIS NOAH BAUMBACH ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. JIM ROHN I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I'v... CHARLES SOULE You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing norma... ANDREA CORR ANGELA DUCKWORTH DAVID BOWIE It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as ... CATHERINE CRIER I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really int... SAOIRSE RONAN A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have ... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI CARL HONORE Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're ... LAURA BENANTI If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec... IRVING KIRSCH MATT KEMP ANNA DEAVERE SMITH JANET JACKSON JASON STATHAM When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. THE TRUTH One of the best ways to have a vibrant life is to create the habit of waking up early. Waking up ear... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you... ELAINE IRWIN PATRICK FUGIT MITCHELL BAKER PHILIP PULLMAN NICK PARK MARTHA BECK The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean,... DAN PINK DANIEL H. PINK JERRY SEINFELD TIGER WOODS ERIC SCHMIDT JONATHAN TISCH You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of m... BYRON HOWARD TERRY CREWS We will always treasure the things we have to work hard for. Because: what easy comes, easy goes... PHILIP T. M. TORI AMOS Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportu... ALEXIS BLEDEL If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at ... BERNARD SUMNER But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y... BEA ARTHUR If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on... JESSIE BAYLIN THOMAS PEREZ DAVID BOWIE If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can... ADAM D'ANGELO If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's muc... DANIEL PORTMAN BETTY WHITE ROBERT KIYOSAKI If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of wo... TAYLOR KINNEY On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have t... RICKIE FOWLER That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot o... LIEV SCHREIBER You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing ... GWYNNE SHOTWELL JIMMY CARTER But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not ... DAVID LLOYD BETTY WHITE MARK UDALL If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working... PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
More Eric Maskin
At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc... ERIC MASKIN When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe... ERIC MASKIN In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments w... ERIC MASKIN There is universal consensus among experts that the earth's atmosphere is heating up - and that ... ERIC MASKIN There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean ... ERIC MASKIN Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don... ERIC MASKIN If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they ... ERIC MASKIN A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what ba... ERIC MASKIN Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick. ERIC MASKIN What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with... ERIC MASKIN Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have t... ERIC MASKIN The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people al... ERIC MASKIN Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the... ERIC MASKIN Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Mye... ERIC MASKIN Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject... ERIC MASKIN I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one. ERIC MASKIN I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail. ERIC MASKIN It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to t... ERIC MASKIN In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents alto... ERIC MASKIN A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, ... ERIC MASKIN Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to e... ERIC MASKIN I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose... ERIC MASKIN I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. ERIC MASKIN How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provid... ERIC MASKIN Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods. ERIC MASKIN I have a strong attachment to Harvard. ERIC MASKIN Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also import... ERIC MASKIN I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fas... ERIC MASKIN This may not be the most serious problem in the world, but it is a familiar one: How do you divide a... ERIC MASKIN You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there. ERIC HOLDER ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo... ERIC HOLDER ERIC DAVIS ERIC SCHLOSSER ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. ERIC SEVAREID ERIC TOPOL ERIC KANDEL ERIC ANDRE ERIC BERNE ERIC SCHMIDT ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ... ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as... ERIC DANE ERIC DAVIS ERIC ANDRE ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better. ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci... ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud... ERIC RIPERT ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it... ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee... ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning. ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st... ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int... ERIC SEVAREID ERIC STOLTZ ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ... ERIC STONESTREET ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st... ERIC STONESTREET ERIC MCCORMACK ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think... ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life... ERIC WINTER ERIC RIES ERIC MASSA ERIC TOPOL ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop... ERIC ALTERMAN ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ... ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ... ERIC CHURCH ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t... ERIC GELMAN ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ... ERIC LIU ERIC HOFFER ERIC PARSLOW ERIC PARSLOW ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla... ERIC HOLDER ERIC ANDRE ERIC HOFFER ERIC PARSLOW ERIC PARSLOW ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ERIC SEVAREID ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER Remembering is something God asks us to do over �... ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u... ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ... ERIC AMBLER ERIC WEINER ERIC BOGOSIAN ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions. 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Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it ou... 
My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you kno... 
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get ... 
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another ... 
One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, t... 
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re... 
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re... 
When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team. 
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of thi... 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ... 
You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, y... 
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. 
If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is ... 
When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's now... 
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of pers... 
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is... 
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you ha... 
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long... 
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastinat... 
I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you'... 
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ... 
Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in ... 
You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of cove... 
You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue persona... 
If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur... 
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on th... 
You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your... 
A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly,... 
If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz... 
If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things.... 
Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in yo... 
As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short project... 
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand o... 
The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean,... 
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if... 
I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work... 
Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical p... 
You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If yo... 
You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better. 
When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your ar... 
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. An... 
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ... 
If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensate... 
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never... 
Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're bl... 
Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look a... 
We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ... 
Children are the keys of paradise. 
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. 
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le... 
I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ... 
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'... 
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie... 
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca... 
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por... 
I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind. 
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins... 
When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ... 
It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra... 
If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important. 
You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&... 
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene... 
My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. 
Great businessmen are creators. 
If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s... 
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. 
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ... 
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. 
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. 
Mass is resistance to motion. 
Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality. 
Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo... 
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off 
I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo... 
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.... 
It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ... 
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'... 
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. 
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be. 
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something. 
You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o... 
If you think you can do it, you can. 
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. 
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. 
A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all. 
When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie... 
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. 