Quotes About Scarcity

La riqueza representa el momento en que uno descubre, por primera vez, un gran deseo por la espiritualidad y siente gran alegría. Ocurre así porque creemos poder alcanzar la espiritualidad utilizando nuestro ego. Estamos dispuestos a leer, a aprender, a hacer todo tipo de cosas. La escasez sobreviene cuando vemos que no podremos alcanzar la espiritualidad, a menos que reconozcamos nuestro ego y consigamos el atributo de dar.

The soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with loopholes. Everything was scarce; everything was also gettable, if you knew how to get it. We had this system for seventy years said Constantine. People learn to work around the system. The more you cultivate a class of people qho know how to work around the system, the more people you will have qho know how to do it well. All of the Soviet Union for seventy years were people who skilled at working around the system

One measure of poverty is how little you have. Another is how difficult you find it to take advantage of what others try to give you.

Sugar was a rarity in eighteenth century America. Even after cane plantations were planted in the Caribbean, it remained a luxury good beyond the reach of most Americans...It wasn't until late in the nineteenth century that sugar became plentiful and cheap enough to enter the lives of many Americans...; before then the sensation of sweetness in the lives of most people came chiefly from the flesh of fruit. And in America that usually meant the apple

The most elusive element of all, however, appears to be francium, which is so rare that it is thought that our entire planet may contain, at any given moment, fewer than twenty francium atoms.

Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

Taken as a whole, men are idiots and fools. They want what they cannot have, and fear what they do have has been gotten too cheaply to be valuable.

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

How can I have both?" This question will change your life. It will take you from a model of scarcity and limitation to a universe of possibilities and abundance. This

There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.

Time is such a cheat. The more importance you give it, the less you have of it.

What's the value of a diamond? Whatever someone is willing to pay for a pretty stone that makes him feel important.

Todo tan insuficiente, tan de más o de menos.

If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?

Admiration is a wonderful thing. I like it the same way I like hundred-year-old brandy, and both of them come my way about as frequently. The other similarity is the way it goes to my head,

Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven.

All'improvviso, un pensiero folgorò Fukuichi: frustrazione e tristezza sono l'eredità di ciascuno di noi. Per quanto si possa credere di godere a sufficienza di un bene qualunque, il godimento non è mai pieno, ma sarà sempre manchevole di qualcosa. Nessuno può avere tutto ciò che vuole, e ognuno è solo sulla faccia della terra.

Dying is common. Living is an outright scarcity. He who believes in death, will soon begin to revere life. He who believes in tomorrow, will have no value for today.

Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.

We can have a leather jacket for $1,500, and if it's a good value, young people will understand that. But we also want to have the feeling that this won't be here in a month.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.