#tis

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#biggest #career #day #experience #gold

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots. ↗

— Josh Silver

#fragile #i #i think #idiots #leaning

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions. ↗

— Nate Silver

#associate #capital #correlate #expertise #good

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. ↗

— Nate Silver

#different #different things #perceive #really #statistically

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. ↗

— Nate Silver

#build #choices #dealing #example #financial

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. ↗

— Ron Silver

#careers #damage #fear #public #retribution

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly. ↗

— Dave Sim

#always #any #around #circle #directly

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again. ↗

— Dave Sim

#american #happen #just #keep #leftists

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#constantly #culture #energies #entirety #grow

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good. ↗

— Paul Simon

#bargain #being #first #good #i