Macro Quotes

• I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pens

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• The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

  Ansel Adams

  Glowing, Land, Sky

  Ansel Adams, Karen E. Haas, Rebecca A. Senf (2005). “Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Powerful, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Robert Pozen

  Views, Hurtful, Looks

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• I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Art, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Three, Chess, Trading

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• The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.

  Zola Jesus

  Important, World, Levels

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• For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

  Brit Marling

  Hovering, Strange, Reason

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Mean, Details, Bigs

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• What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Stories, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Time, Nature, Space

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms of balancing the micro and the macro and the personal and the structural, it's actually a bigger issue than you and your phone addiction.

  Astra Taylor

  Issues, Phones, Addiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.

  Jason Rezaian

  Country, Thinking, Situation

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything. S/he is just a stooge for management, leading you down more rabbit holes of options for things called Wizards, Macros, Templates, and Cascading Style Sheets.

  Louis Menand

  Style, Trying, Ark

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• The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reading, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro/microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual reality established by the digital simulation?

  Chuck Missler

  Lying, Reality, Doe

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• It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader.

  Annie E. Clark

  People, Leader, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did
  they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Deployment, Principles, Events

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Long, Style

  "Warren Buffett On Todd Combs, Berkshire's New Hedge Fund Superstar" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Dream, Badass, Issues

  "Women in the US Senate: a guide to the 20 female senators" by Emma G. Keller, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

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• The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Europe, Fans, World

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• I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Evil, Roles

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• Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

  David Frum

  Jobs, Sound, Economy

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Order, Creating, House

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• I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

  Joel Greenblatt

  People, Events, Timing

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