Quotes About Demand

when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn't pay well. This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. The others are the specialized skills a job requires, the unpleasantness of a job, and the demand for services that the job fulfills.

Why has the prostitute's wage fallen so far? Because

Adam Smith called it the paradox of value: when an important good becomes plentiful, it costs far less than what people are willing to pay for it. The difference is called consumer surplus, and the explosion of this surplus over time is impossible to tabulate.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

To sacrifice ourselves to God (to the highest good, if you like) does not mean to suffer silently and willingly when some person or organization demands more from us, consistently, than is offered in return. That means we are supporting tyranny, and allowing ourselves to be treated like slaves.

When this does not happen, they don't speak up. They do not or cannot straightforwardly demand recognition. The dark side of their characters emerges, because of their subjugation, and they become resentful.

When do we simply follow convention, doing what others request or demand; and when do we rely on our own individual judgment, with all its limitations and biases, and reject the requirements of the collective? In other words: How do we establish a balance between reasonable conservatism and revitalizing creativity?

The "fit" in "fitness" is therefore the matching of organismal attribute to environmental demand.

For there is no doubt that the most radical division that is possible to make of humanity is that which splits into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere boys that float on the waves.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Who's the girl?" Alice demanded as we walked toward the bridge. "That's just Mr. Gilbert's daughter. She's really shy." "Never seen a shy girl with hair that color," Alice said, and edge of venom in her voice.

What happened?" Sagewhisker demanded. "The rats happened," Scorchwind growled.

But why have you called me here?" Storm's gaze hardened. "We're growing tired of waiting." Waiting? For what?

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

Why do people who leave nothing unchallenged still make de­mands of their own? They live off the fact that gods, fathers, and poets used to exist. The essence of words has been diluted into empty titles. In the animal kingdom, there are parasites that clandestinely hollow out a caterpillar. Eventually, a mere wasp emerges instead of a butterfly. And that is what those people do with their heri­tage, and with language in particular, as counterfeiters...

Turn it," Thomas said, without smiling. "Play it again.