David Korten Quotes

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
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• The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
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• I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

  

  Laila Ali
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• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
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• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
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• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
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• I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Professional
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• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  

  Aberjhani
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• Without electricity, the air would rot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
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  • Doing

• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• Will Smith. He's been my career idol for years and years. I used to sit back and watch and study 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' over and over. It's the only TV show that I've watched all the way through maybe five times.

  

  Jessie Usher
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• Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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• Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even if tax hikes happen as feared, vast history tells me it doesn't have to have the big bad impact folks fear. And fear of a false factor is always bullish.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Bad
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  • Fear

• But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • World
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• If the EPA cannot or will not act to halt the toxic e-waste trade to developing nations, then Congress should take action.

  

  Gene Green
  • Action

• The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

  

  David Korten
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  • Professional