The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer. — Edward Martin Copy Share Image
My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role,… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays… — Leon Croizat Copy Share Image
The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's… — R. Stanley Williams Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious.… — Danny Dyer Copy Share Image
Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming… — Rene Carayol Copy Share Image
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources,… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at,… — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end… — Grigory Zinoviev Copy Share Image
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
