Evan Davis Quotes

Evan Davis — British Economist born on April 08, 1962,

Evan Harold Davis is an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC... (wikipedia)

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

Evan Davis Quotes

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