#sting

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#better #domains #example #expertise #experts

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#artists #creative #creative people #distinguishes #go

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#bike #face #had #i #interesting

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads. ↗

— Wes Boyd

#ads #blasting #currently #fund-raising #occasionally

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#first #i #interesting #movie #review

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. ↗

— Euripides

#down #fasting #good #heaven #knees

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#basketball #broadcasting #called #experience #game

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#become #change #economy #happen #help

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#bass #big #big ones #biting #care