Quotes About Resource

A cheaper alternative was burning coal—sea coal or pit coal, the Elizabethans called it to distinguish it from charcoal.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

And the main fight will be over water, not oil.

To create a pause between the stimulus and your reaction, add a truth to every defensive answer. For a healthy adult, the truth is the only defense and the best resource.

Throughout the Near East lay rare tinder for anti-Western propaganda: a Moslem culture and history, bitter Arab nationalism galled by Jewish immigration under British protection and with massive American financial support, the remnants of a colonial status, and a sense of grievance that a vast natural resource was being extracted by foreigners under arrangements thought unfair to those living on the surface. This tinder could be, and was, lighted everywhere...

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

utilizing" a resource means making use of the resource in a way that moves the system toward the goal. "Activating" a resource is like pressing the ON switch of a machine; it runs whether or not there is any benefit to be derived from the work it's doing.

Putting it precisely, activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

Besides . . . a mine is a terrible thing to waste.

First, we are not selling something people may or may not need; we are offering a free gift that is the most vital news a person could ever know. Second, when you sell something, you are dependent on the product and on your ability to sell it. But with the gospel, we have resources not of this world.

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

Our children are our most precious resource, and we must work to help ensure their safety against every type of risk, including severe weather while they're in school.

I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.

My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

With 'Black and White 2,' I want to put it in a setting where you're actually using the creature. I want the little people within the land not to just be a resource but actually be in conflict and fighting and battling against each other.

It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.