Quotes About Resources

Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many theaters don't have flexibility or resources, be it hiring a lot of actors or staging a work that might be tough for some audience and board members.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

The water supply was poor and food scarce unless you could afford exorbitant prices.

The Greek inhabitants are very rich in gold and precious stones

To carry out war, three things are necessary," remarked the Milanese general Marshal Trivulzio presciently in 1499, "money, money and yet more money.

This fun visualisation can be used to help clients discover internal resources they already have to head for adventure, face fears and overcome obstacles. It is important to prepare clients for the tough world they face outside the therapy room. Life is unfair, and it is important that clients learn to see difficulties as opportunities to conquer and learn from.

The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power].

Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth.

The price of fuel may have tipped the balance.

The auction proposes what the envy test in fact assumes, that the true measure of the social resources devoted to the life of one person is fixed by asking how important, in fact, that resource is for others. [The auction] insists that the cost, measured in that way, figures in each person's sense of what is rightly his and in each person's judgment of what life he should lead, given that command of justice.

Since Biblical faith calls us to generously share our resources with needy people, Christians in rich nations ought to promote generous immigration policies that make it easier, rather than harder, for poor immigrants to enter their country legally to seek work.

Are national boundaries sacred? Are they ordained by God? do the citizens of a rich nation have the right to use their abundant resources just for themselves? Or to keep out immigrants from poor nations who seek greater economic opportunity?

On the whole, resources are likely to come to you in greater abundance when you are generous and inclusive and engage people in your passion for life.

We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

it is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around.

In the end, the Impressionists made the right choice, which is one of the reasons that their paintings hang in every major art museum in the world. But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

This doesn't mean affirmative action is wrong. It is something done with the best of intentions, and elite schools often have resources available to help poor students that other schools do not. But this does not change the fact that -- as Herbert Marsh says -- the blessings of the Big Pond are mixed, and it is strange how rarely the Big Pond's downsides are mentioned.

Because the people and countries who are wealthy enough to pay for things like really small classes have a hard time understanding that the things their wealth can buy might not always make them better off.

Words belong to the person who wrote them. There are few simpler ethical notions than this one, particularly as society directs more and more energy and resources toward the creation of intellectual property.

There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources—and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

There were history's gifts to my family-and if the resources of that grocer, the fruits of those riots, the possibilities of that culture, and the privileges of that skin tone had been extended to others, how many more would now live a life of fulfillment, in a beautiful house high on a hill?

We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options. Vivek

the question that my book leaves us with: If David beat Goliath—if, in fact, Davids beat Goliaths all the time, if adversity is a great teacher, if resources ultimately become self-defeating—why doesn't that change the way we make sense of the world?