Think Like a Freak Quotes.

1. "Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta."
- Stephen J. Dubner, Think Like a Freak

2. "Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

3. "Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

4. "The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

5. "Why is it so important to have fun? Because if you love your work (or your activism or your family time), then you’ll want to do more of it. You’ll think about it before you go to sleep and as soon as you wake up; your mind is always in gear. When you’re that engaged, you’ll run circles around other people even if they are more naturally talented. From what we’ve seen personally, the best predictor of success among young economists and journalists is whether they absolutely love what they do. If they approach their job like—well, a job—they aren’t likely to thrive. But if they’ve somehow convinced themselves that running regressions or interviewing strangers is the funnest thing in the world, you know they have a shot."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

6. "One thing we’ve learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

7. "The plural of anecdote is not data.)"
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

8. "When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

9. "But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

10. "Few people think more than two or three times a year, Shaw reportedly said. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
- Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak