3 Quotes & Sayings By Albert O Hirschman

Albert O. Hirschman was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He was a practicing lawyer and a senior official in the U.S. Department of Labor during World War II Read more

He also worked as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and as an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Commission on Government Organization (later, as Director of the Office of Management Studies for the Henry Ford Foundation).

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History is nothing if not far-fetched. Albert O. Hirschman
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Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened.. Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be.. We are apparently on the trail here of some sort of invisible or hidden hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us. Albert O. Hirschman