Marginal Quotes

72 quotes by 69 authors

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes… — Mark Twight
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it… — David Halberstam
We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our… — Victoria Moran
An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal… — Harlan Mills
There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or… — Henry Ford
Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called… — Henri Nouwen
In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to? — Mary Ruefle
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and… — Hilary Mantel
The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Itâ€™s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and thatâ€™s what keeps… — Unknown Author
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal… — Toni Morrison
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part… — Mark Strand
Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. — Patrick McHenry
Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest. — Sean Wilentz
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for… — James Grant
I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do… — Bill Keller
Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should… — Hubert Butler
The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result,… — John Katzman
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the… — Norman Borlaug

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