Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just… — David Pratt Copy Share Image
Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about.… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally;… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it.… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country. — Alexandra Paul Copy Share Image
The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need… — Stuart Ewen Copy Share Image
The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn… — Randy Carlyle Copy Share Image
The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
