#elle

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

#career #challenging #economics #fascinating #i

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can. ↗

— John Phillips

#hold #just #michelle #out #roll

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ↗

— Zara Phillips

#find #i #labelled #princess #quite

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#entertainment #excellent #film #noble #plain

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#because #emotion #emotionally #every #fall