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Quotes About Scarce

Do extremely difficult work. That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do. The implication is stunning, though: When designing a project or developing a skill, seek out the most difficult parts to master and contribute. If it's easy, it's not for you.
~ Seth Godin
Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable and brave: make art. Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things you're an artist, no matter what it says on your business card.
~ Seth Godin
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
though this can scarce happen amongst that part of mankind that have consented to the use of money.
~ John Locke
Since Garrett Hardin's challenging article in "Science" (1968), the expression "the tragedy of the commons" has come to symbolize the degradation of the environment to be expected whenever many individuals use a scarce resource in common.
~ Elinor Ostrom
Any event that has occurred just five times since the first animal with a backbone appeared, some five hundred million years ago, must qualify as exceedingly rare.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I like everything rare - cars, shoes, clothes.
~ Mike Will Made It
O Wedding Guest! This soul hath beenAlone on a wide wide sea:So lonely 'twas, that God himselfScarce seemèd there to be.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time is the scarcest resource.
~ Peter Drucker
Time is a perishable commodity.
~ David Hume
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.
~ Tyler Cowen
Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.
~ Arnold Bennett
Life summed up with a marketing slogan: Limited Edition!
~ Kevin Focke
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
~ Adam Davidson
The most valuable and least replacable resource is time.
~ Russell L. Ackoff
More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.
~ Seth
Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.
~ Mark Cuban
You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the interests of separation, Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, heartless competitors for the scarce male, the all-important prize that could legitimize our existence. This dehumanizing denial of self is no less lethal than the dehumanization of racism to which it is so closely allied.
~ Audre Lorde
True sorrow is as rare as true love.
~ Stephen King
El pesar auténtico es tan escaso como el amor auténtico.
~ Stephen King
But pitting individuals against each other in a competition for scarce resources (such as bonuses) will destroy hivishness, trust, and morale.
~ Jonathan Haidt