Quotes About Demand

It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.

To hope that the growing vulnerability of a world increasingly integrated by technology will not demand a total despotism is mere foolishness.

False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity. The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.

Here, precisely here, man imitates God: God granted Himself the work of creation, as the highest delight, and He demands that man, too, be a creator of prosperity and the harmonious course of things. And this they call dull!

Watching movies today is a passive experience, and there is little demand on the viewer's imagination.

Every modern woman who rejects the double standard, who combines a career with life as a mother, who demands personal

However, the power difference between economic establishments and outsiders in societies where there is a fairly free market for supply and demand and even, in some areas, for professional appointments, is much less than that between absolute rulers or their councillors and their court musicians — even though artists who were famous and à la mode could take some liberties.

The independent scientist who is worth the slightest consideration as a scientist has a consecration which comes entirely from within himself: a vocation which demands the possibility of supreme self-sacrifice.

Lean starts with customer service and ends with customer service.  You answer the following question, "How can I please my customers by delivering to them exactly what they want, exactly when they want it, in the right quantity and in the right quality at the lowest possible cost?

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling.

With the reference to the indispensable third person (an audience), Freud relates the demand for intelligibility to the demand for communication. The implication is that art has the function of making public the contents of the unconscious.

Energy prices in the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index soared almost 60 percent in 2021 as supply lagged behind demand.49 Pressure on institutional investors from eco-minded shareholders has slashed investment in new fossil fuel projects by 40 percent, according to one estimate.

I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It's one I've always liked. A widow is so persistent in her demands for justice that she overcomes the resistance of a judge who fears neither God nor man. She wears him down. Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

had to demand everything out of my new surroundings, and I felt like I'd been cheated.

What do you expect us to do?" "Set the wheels in motion. Punish the culprits. Change the law." "That's too much. You can't want all those things," he said. "Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want," I shouted furiously

that the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.

there is a second lesson from Grübler's studies of past energy transitions to be confronted. They have, in the main, been driven not by the availability of new ways of providing energy, but by new ways of using it: transitions are pulled by demand, not pushed by supply.

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

No me arrepentiré. Sólo cuando uno se respeta a sí mismo puede exigir el respeto de los demás, y sólo cuando uno cree en sí mismo los demás pueden creerle.

El aspecto clave del revenue management es la gestión de los precios, factor que, en principio, permite discriminar la demanda. Para poder determinar el éxito de la gestión de precios se puede utilizar el ratio de ingresos por habitación disponible (en inglés, RevPar, revenue per available room),

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.