Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
The impact of the human tragedies I've reported on is that, more often than not, I'll be angry. I want to know… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my… — Walter Hadwen Copy Share Image
Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
You need a combination of many things to get good results. Experience is one of these, and it can be very useful… — Valentino Rossi Copy Share Image
Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers'… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too,… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Tequila?" I asked him, skeptically. "Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal. — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don't overdo it. Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image