John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Reality
  • Thoughts
  • Now

• I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Great
  • Myself

• Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Couple

• We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Government

• By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Great
  • Matter

• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Money
  • Want
  • Nothing

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Treat
  • Judged
  • Weakest

• It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Job
  • Dark
  • Easy

• I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Me
  • Optimistic
  • Go

• The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Long
  • Media
  • Relationships

• It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Simple
  • Something
  • Nobody

• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • Faith
  • Patience

• There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Brain
  • Woman
  • Talent

• If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Today
  • Law

• After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Failure
  • Goal

• I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • Walking
  • Racism

• Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Short
  • Eat

• I was one of the first early Twitter users from the film fraternity. And back then in 2009, I thought I was going to enter a world where people liked me, knew me, knew my work - it was going to be fine! All about the love, not the hate. And it was. At first.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Lost
  • Drama

• If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Loss
  • Grateful
  • Circles

• At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...

  

  Augustus
  • Age
  • Service
  • Army

• When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • English
  • Thought

• The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith