The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret,… — David Corbett Copy Share Image
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact… — Gautam Adani Copy Share Image
Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields:… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined. — John Bruton Copy Share Image
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent. — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel… — Mirah Copy Share Image
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
There won't be some overnight miracle cure. But the measures I take will be sustainable. Our goal is to cease food imports… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
Actually, the few good Chinese movies that foreign countries choose to import are Zhang Yimou's, and mine, a few directors, but how… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over… — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport. — Christofer Drew Copy Share Image
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing -… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York… — Lark Voorhies Copy Share Image
