Quotes of Michael Lewis - somelinesforyou

“ When you’re trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ When you’re trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ Time is a variable continuum. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ I remember his words," recalled Amnon. "He said, 'There is nothing we can do in philosophy. Plato solved too many of the problems. We can't have any impact in this area. There are too many smart guys and too few problems left, and the problems have no solutions.'" The mindbody problem was a good example. How are our various mental events—what you believe, what you think—related to our physical states? What is the relationship between our bodies and our minds? The question was at least as old as Descartes, but there was still no answer in sight—at least not in philosophy. The trouble with philosophy, Amos thought, was that it didn't play by the rules of science. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The majority of people in this county and state believe in traditional marriage values. We know it's a cultural war between those who believe in absolute values and those who don't. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ If you like crafty stuff they are going to open the market for crafty people. When Jaime Moyer of the Seattle Mariners pitches, I love watching him. In a way it is a much more interesting game than watching Randy Johnson pitch. You are not only watching a game you are watching a thought process. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ There is some wonderful material that ended up on the cutting-room floor because the story is a very focused story. There wasn't room to go into digressions with the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ There is some wonderful material that ended up on the cutting-room floor because the story is a very focused story. There wasn't room to go into digressions with the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ It's a patently unfair game that $40 million has to play against $120 million. It just violates all of our notions of fairness that money is one of the determining factors in the outcome of a sporting contest. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ This was very much a familiarity test, as much as anything. The Lola is new to everybody on the team, from the crew to the drivers. The two days went about as perfectly as one could imagine. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ It's a patently unfair game that $40 million has to play against $120 million. It just violates all of our notions of fairness that money is one of the determining factors in the outcome of a sporting contest. ”

- Michael Lewis

“ There is some wonderful material that ended up on the cutting-room floor because the story is a very focused story. There wasn't room to go into digressions with the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. ”

- Michael Lewis
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