The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable. — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.… — Abraham Zaleznik Copy Share Image
It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you. — Jimmy Evans Copy Share Image
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals. — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
