James Heckman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.”

“I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.”

“It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.”

“My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.”

“Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.”

“The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.”

“There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.”

“For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.”

“I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.”

“I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.”