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Quotes About Conditions

The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
~ Edwin Lefevre
Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.
~ Edwin Lefevre
It requires conducive social conditions, rather than monstrous people, to produce heinous deeds.
~ Albert Bandura
The concept of deservingness for one's "sins" implies that certain acts are unquestionably under all conditions "sinful." And this is impossible to prove.
~ Albert Ellis
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
~ Alec Wilkinson
No idea about weather these days.
~ Alex Anderson
Man is not free from conditions. But he is free to take a stand in regard to them. The conditions do not completely condition him.
~ Alex Pattakos
Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live in conditions that make them bad. See how law and government uphold and protect the biggest crime of all, the mother of all crimes, the capitalistic wage system, and then proceeds to punish the poor criminal.
~ Alexander Berkman
A person is not an originating agent; he is a locus, a point at which many genetic and environmental conditions come together in a joint effect.
~ Alfie Kohn
The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
~ Edgar Mitchell
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.
~ Johannes Stark
Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
~ Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Employers will work you longer for less money and under questionable safety conditions because it is their duty to prioritize the bottom line. As individuals, we cannot complain. That's why we need a union to speak for us, certainly when our safety, our health, and our very lives are at stake!
~ Haskell Wexler
If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.
~ Inzamam-ul-Haq
I definitely played on a lot of muddy northern pitches.
~ John Stones
English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.
~ Sourav Ganguly
When you play on foreign pitches, you get used to their conditions.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
In India you pick teams based on pitches, so it's the bowlers who get changed. if it is a turning pitch a fast bowler can't play, and if it is a green pitch, a spinner can't play.
~ Anil Kumble
Whether a star has planetary companions or not is a condition of its birth. Those with a larger initial allotment of metals have an advantage over those without.
~ Debra Fischer
Conditions impact the behaviour of people.
~ Eliyahu Goldratt
Given the right conditions any society can turn against democracy.
~ Anne Applebaum
Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.
~ Ron Dellums
I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
~ Karl Lagerfeld