Quotes About Resources

Today's Democrats in this sense are heirs of Jackson. They too appropriate resources from others and distribute them among Democratic constituencies, trading favors for votes. They too pose as the friends of those they are stealing from, justifying their confiscations as good for the victims and good for the country.

What people discard could make a nation

The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them.

Human beings collect physical, emotional, and social resources that help them survive in the world.

Acumular recursos. Si los productos y servicios que ofreces ayudan a la gente a hacer dinero o acumular recursos que le son muy necesarios, eso tiene una rápida traducción en el deseo de supervivencia de la persona.

Now it takes 150 people on a set to make a movie, so you have an enormous amount of equipment with an enormous number of resources, whereas in an electronic medium, it's much easier. Eventually, you'll be able to take a machine the size of a Betamax with a little camera and make a movie. You'll get professional-quality equipment that is in the electronic mode to give us the quality we now get with film.

This was the problem with making important decisions by committee and trying to run a war of ideals with men and women whose vision was so limited by money.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research--or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

When government is small and relatively weak, the most effective way to make money is to start a successful private-sector business. But the larger the size and scope of government spending, the easier it is to make money by diverting public resources.

Later, she calculated that the dead men's flight alone had cost over sixty-eight thousand dollars. "What if," she asked, "somebody had simply invested that amount in their villages to begin with?

Getting your finances right is essential to 100-year life, but money is far from being the most important resource. Family, friendships, mental health and happiness are all crucial components.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

What does the Dalai Lama's life teach us? Certainly, he is a sterling example of turning adversity into joyful service. But there is more to him than that: he is also a model of innovation and adaptation. He has taken the tenets of Buddhism and made them relevant to everyone. His message is not just about personal happiness and good karma; it is also very much about respecting the earth's resources, recognizing the equality of all people, and sharing with the less fortunate.

The unofficial reason for England's occupation of India was to tap Indian resources to expand British wealth

Who do I need to be to fulfill on the commitment I've made? What kind of human being do I need to forge myself into to make this happen? What resources do I need to be willing to bring to bear in myself and my colleagues and in my world?

We find sufficiency and sustainable prosperity when we think of our resources as a flow that is meant to be shared, when we put our full attention on making a difference with what we have, and when we partner with others in ways that expand and deepen that experience.

A good approach to something requires enough resources to handle the demands of that activity.

And if I spend resources I don't have, I will eventually bankrupt myself.

John Sharpe summarizes it well in his review of G. K. Chesterton's Outline of Sanity: The world today operates by ". . . consuming the world's limited resources to produce an ever-expanding stream of products which are designed to wear out or become quickly outmoded, and for which the need is more often than not created by advertising, and not by necessity.

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.

As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.