Assigning Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And… — Kim Stanley Robinson
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato
The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties… — Galileo Galilei
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order… — David Harvey
I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; youâ€™re tearing into… — James Chanos
All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to… — Werner Erhard
There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously… — Paul Farmer
It is vital that each sister have visiting teachers,to convey a sense that she is needed, that someone loves and thinks about her. But equally… — Barbara W. Winder
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall… — William Bolcom
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you. — Ralph Marston
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for… — Wayne Dyer
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, letâ€™s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen… — Barack Obama
What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or… — Mark Waid
Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with… — Gwyneth Paltrow
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so… — Jerry Spinelli
I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the… — Holly Madison
Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow… — Ludwig von Mises
Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some… — Jonathan Coe

Who Wrote These Assigning Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Assigning Quotes as follows: