Quotes About Margins

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Estos millones de ventas marginales constituyen un negocio rentable. Sin un espacio de ventas que se debe pagar, y sin costes de fabricación y distribución, como en el caso de los servicios exclusivamente digitales de iTunes, un producto de nicho vendido sólo es otra venta más, con los mismos márgenes de ganancia (o mejores) que un producto de éxito.

los márgenes comerciales del café rondan el 150 por ciento; cuesta 40 centavos preparar una taza de café de máquina de un dólar, y menos de un dólar preparar un café cortado que se vende a 2,55 dólares. De

I've come to understand the cumulative dialogue of my work as a kind of cartography of wisdom about our emerging world. This book is a map in words to important territory we all are on now together. It's a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across human history, and it's happening there now. Seismic shifts in common life, as in geophysical reality, begin in spaces and cracks.

A 6 per cent unemployment rate after twenty-four years of uninterrupted growth is a poor return for those who have been left on the margins of society.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books.

Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it's only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.

The margins for restaurants to make money are very, very narrow. It's a tough business, and to be a chef is a little bit masochistic.

When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship.

This correspondence was so precious to them that some women were buried with their letters of friendship, yet enough survive for us to see that they wrote in a slender column down the center of each page, leaving wide margins as spaces for a correspondent to add her own words.

Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.

It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

She liked time at the edges of things -- the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood -- where all must pass but none quite belonged.

The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.

Well-managed companies are excellent at developing the sustaining technologies that improve the performance of their products in the ways that matter to their customers. This is because their management practices are biased toward: Listening to customers Investing aggressively in technologies that give those customers what they say they want Seeking higher margins Targeting larger markets rather than smaller ones

The banks cannot hold back or withdraw from the dilemma in which their mode of doing business has placed them. They must carry the load to save their margins.

Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.

You can indeed die at the margins of a story, but you are as dead as if it were your own tale ending and never told.

El problema es que se recuerda esta lista con una intensidad tal que su mismo ardor confunde los hechos. La lista era un bien absoluto. La lista era la vida. Más allá de sus márgenes se abría el abismo.

By accepting its marginal status, the church can actually engage in a freer kind of service as a result of not having to be in control. Describing the power of powerlessness, he states, "Powerless churches need not wrangle over the relationship between evangelism and social action (this was always essentially about power), but can develop fresh perspectives on seemingly intractable social issues, because things look different from the margins.

when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.

If change is to come, it will have to come from the margins.