Howard Raiffa Quotes

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

What my day is like depends on where I am.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.

The starting point is a question.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

You can only begin where you find yourself

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out.

We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don’t change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

The beginning of it starts at the end

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.