Digging Quote by William Easterly Download Open image “When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.” — William Easterly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Digging Holes Priorities
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging. — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
If you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging — Church Bulletin Board Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help. — Seymour Chwast Copy Share Image
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.” — William Easterly Copy Share Image
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“Some people believe labor-saving technological change is bad for the workers because it throws them out of work. This is the Luddite fallacy, one… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights. The emphasis on… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.” — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
