Top 1200 Economic Activity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.

Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action appeared, where is lays out his case in a more popular form. The money sentences are “Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too.

Our philosophy always teaches us that you can have intense activity, but inside, you have to have peace. The office has to reflect that.

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.

Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.

Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

We must overcome our cultural barriers that giving should be a private and silent activity.

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.

Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

In a web/mobile startup, coding is not an outsourced activity. It's an integral part of the company's DNA.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

We need economic policies in the U.S. that produce jobs, first of all, but good jobs, second of all. Believe it or not, Germany, a country characterized by high wages, strong unions, a social safety net, and so forth is the second largest exporter (after China) in the world. The idea that the only way to succeed is by eliminating vacations, sick days, worker protections, and so forth is simply belied by the competitiveness rankings produced by the Economist magazine's intelligence unit and by the World Economic Forum.

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels have economic value as well as obvious value for our health and our well-being and our survival. In fact, as you know, the economic revolution in renewable fuels has been impressive. It really had not been anticipated.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.