Top 1200 Scarce Resources Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

When Ex-Im gives companies the resources they need to sell their products abroad, their employees, suppliers and communities succeed at home.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths.

In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.

I champion a real campaign to tackle the rampant corruption that is draining Saudi resources, both financial and human.

The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.

Mental health resources are under huge pressure and there are a lot of people who are not necessarily getting the support they need in time.

Resources are becoming scarcer. If we want to promote new growth, we should focus on the quality of the value we are creating.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

As soon as I got in the NBA, I was thinking about it - wanting to use my influence and resources to help different communities.

I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.

The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.

In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.

Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.

Resources are a trust of the nation, and each and every penny is being spent on public welfare projects honestly.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.