Jeremy Grantham Quotes

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

• Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Business
  • Bad

• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Between

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Thought

• One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Help

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  

  Saadi
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Patience

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.

  

  Clark Durant
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Time
  • Culture

• And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

  

  James Levine
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pretty

• We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • World
  • Great
  • Live