Nate Silver quotes - page 3

Success makes you less intimidated by things. (Nate Silver)
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. View quote
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. View quote
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being. View quote
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. View quote
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. View quote
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. View quote
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' View quote
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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. View quote
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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. View quote
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. (Nate Silver)
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over. View quote
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have. View quote
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. View quote
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. View quote
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience. View quote
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Voters' memories will fade some. View quote
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public. View quote
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I've just always been a bit of a dork. View quote
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular. View quote
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. (Nate Silver)
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. View quote
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. View quote
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. View quote
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. View quote
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