"Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish."

-- Richard Florida

#Needs Quotes #Economy Quotes #Traders Quotes

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

Source : Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225
“I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.”
“I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?”
“People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.”
“If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.”
“I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.
“After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.”
“The objective is not just to save the crew or just to get the ship up, but the superobjective is to get back home to the family and protect the family.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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