Quotes About Demand

las personas parecen concentrarse mejor cuando se les pide algo más que lo corriente, en cuyo caso son capaces de ir más allá de lo normal. Si la demanda es muy inferior a su capacidad, la persona se aburre y si, por el contrario, es excesiva, termina angustiándose.

Csikszentmihalyi told me, "People seem to concentrate best when the demands on them are a bit greater than usual, and they are able to give more than usual. If there is too little demand on them, people are bored. If there is too much for them to handle, they get anxious. Flow occurs in that delicate zone between boredom and anxiety.

Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

I hereby demand that all people who are good at math make the world free of illness.

There is only one way to make money: finding out what other people want or need and then providing those things to as many of our fellow humans as possible. This is the only way to earn money, no matter your occupation.

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

Se sentía solo con su vida solitaria, pero a veces la soledad era aún mayor cuando estaba rodeado de personas que no cesaban de exigirle cosas. Necesitaba un respiro.

at least for now, the "demand" for EVs is largely coming not from consumers, but from governments whose evolving policies are shaped by climate concerns as well as by urban pollution and congestion.

When the SARS epidemic had begun in 2002, China accounted for only 4 percent of the world economy, and the impact on the global oil market was negligible. But now China accounted for 16 percent, and the impact was global; for China not only had become the world's second largest oil consumer, but it also had accounted for half the total growth in world oil demand.

Mitchell Energy was contracted to provide 10 percent of Chicago's natural gas. But the reserves of gas in the ground to support that contract were running down.

In the decade and a half following its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, China's oil consumption increased two and a half times over. It is currently the eighth-largest oil producer in the world, at 3.8 million barrels per day. But its demand has surged far ahead of domestic supply. It has become the world's largest importer of oil: by the beginning of 2020, 75 percent of total demand.

As in the 1960s, oil and energy were now available in abundance and, thus, they were not a constraint on economic growth. Supplies were safe again. Excess oil capacity around the world exceeded demand by 10 million barrels per day, equivalent to 20 percent of the free world's consumption.

January 1861, fell to 50 cents by June and, by the end of 1861, were down

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The singular demand for production has been unable to acknowledge the importance of the sources of production in nature and in human culture.

At every point in our food economy, present conditions remaining, we must expect to come to a time when demand (for quantity or quality) going up will meet the culture coming down. The fact is that we have nearly destroyed American farming, and in the process have nearly destroyed our country. from the essay Nature As Measure

She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness

Guyana black and magenta, of course, which we generally acknowledge to be the single most valuable stamp in the world—it is in perfectly horrible condition. Corners cut off, nasty blob of a postmark. With stamps of this great rarity, these unique stamps, condition is less of a factor than supply and demand. Most especially, of course, demand." I nodded. Ollie Weston had told me much the same thing.

You can always sell tools," Skinner had mused, perhaps to Yamazaki, perhaps to himself. "Somebody'll always buy 'em. But then you always need 'em again, exactly the one you sold.

Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what war demands of everyone. Far better is it for an army to be too savage, too cruel, too barbarous, than to possess too much sentimentality and human reasonableness.

It is at this point that my own solution begins to appear. I offer the oddly-named thing pragmatism as a philosophy that can satisfy both kinds of demand. It can remain religious like the rationalisms, but at the same time, like the empiricisms, it can preserve the richest intimacy with facts. I hope I may be able to leave many of you with as favorable an opinion of it as I preserve myself. Yet, as I am near the end of my hour, I will not introduce pragmatism bodily now.

It was known that he demanded, and received, a high fee for the many articles which he wrote in those days for the impoverished Nazi press. There was much grumbling in party circles over the high cost of Hitler. These