Top 1200 Interest Rate Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.

The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.

I think the Iraqis themselves will have to make a determination as to what type of government they ultimately come up with and what kind of nation they ultimately come up with. But they can continually use America's troops presence. The problem is not going to change until they are confronted with the reality that they have to make decisions and they have to make them themselves. They have to decide whether they want a country, whether they're willing to put their lives on the line and sacrifice for a national interest as opposed to a regional or sectarian interest.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn rate, increase their virality coefficient, and retain key hires.

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it's important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field.

I can understand a bad pass or something like that; I don't get irate. But the one thing I can never accept is a lack of work rate. You have to be able to give everything you have.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

It's not my job to rate myself and judge myself. That's up to someone else.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Who shaped me the most was Thomas Tuchel. For the simple reason that he was my own trainer and the exchange was so much more intense. I can rate how he really thinks.

Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.

In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.

The appalling rate of incarceration among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples demands we create justice targets under the Closing the Gap framework.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.

I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten.

Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.

I personally want to play Test cricket, hopefully, when I qualify. It's the pinnacle, a great place to showcase your skills and really rate yourself.

Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.