"Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition."

-- George Stigler

#Self Quotes #Competition Quotes #Important Quotes

“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
“Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.”
“Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.”

Source : David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA
“It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.”
“Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day”
“You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.”

Source : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.165, Rodale
“You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.”
“It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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