Quotes About Resources

I told him my theory. Most people, the minute they met you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources.

Most people, the minute they met you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people—people they could get rid of.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

The mind must make its own happiness; any troubles can be endured if the sufferer has resources of his own to sustain him.

Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [ The Premise Of Meaning , American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

More money," Etcoff writes, "is spent on beauty than on education or social services." FEARS

Money, or its equivalents, are essential in war as well as in peace.

Bibliographic control (more often referred to as information organization today) is the process of describing information resources and providing name, title, and subject access to the descriptions, resulting in records or individual metadata statements that serve as surrogates for the actual items of recorded information.

Although the relationships among them are not explicitly defined, there is no doubt that these terms and the vocabulary's syndetic structure can be helpful when retrieving resources within a database or catalog.

Tenochtitlán y Texcoco aportarían guerreros y estrategas, mientras que la humilde Tacuba proporcionaría cargadores y tortillas

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use.

We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

A lot of people can raise money.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.