Quotes About Nudge

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

You've really helped him a lot." Samsara shrugged. "It's mostly Raz's insight. I just nudge him a little occasionally." "Which is what a good teacher does.

If anything, we hope that DonorsChoose.org is going to be a prompt, a nudge in the side of the public school system to improve and to start delivering these materials and experiences that students need and to make it easier for teachers to innovate.

God will always nudge us in the direction of kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control.16 When in doubt, max those out.

It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist.

Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58

A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.

There is no need to shove, his duchess said snippily. There is every need. Think of it not as shoving, but an affectionate nudge.

Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.

Can't you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I'd fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)

I nudged Whiskey down the far side of the rise, and came among them like Death on my pale horse.

A nudge is some feature of the environment that changes the behaviour of humans but would not change the behaviour of rational economic agents, what we call Econs.

I think readers' imaginations are far more powerful than anything you can put on a page and, therefore, can conjure up graphic images for themselves, which I think you just have to nudge them towards.

Our biases can be used against themselves: we are better placed to nudge our friends and family away from their prejudices than we are to urge such moral transformation on strangers.

If we found a hazardous asteroid, we could nudge it out of the way.

She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person.

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign it, 'Nudge for good.' Unfortunately, that is meant as a plea, not an expectation.

I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.

Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.

Nudge policies, in essence, can be used to encourage us to mimic the way that we would behave if we were as rational as economic man.