John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case...

John Maynard Keynes

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• I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

  

  Warren Moon
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Dancing is a beautiful thing.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Beautiful
  • Thing
  • Dancing

• Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility

• Yoga is just good for you.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • You
  • Yoga

• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Hand

• When there's no one else look inside yourself -- like your oldest friend -- just trust the voice within -- then you'll find the strength that will guide your way. You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Trust

• Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• What we're doing is talking and that is always better than not talking.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation

• I don't really care whether England are closer to us or not - I believe that it's all about us.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Believe
  • Care
  • England

• Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Technology
  • Eyes
  • Reflect

• Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Character
  • Kind

• I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Nature
  • Littles
  • Bits

• What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

  

  William V. Shannon
  • Important
  • Illusion
  • Happenings

• Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Measurable

• When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk in the minds of its advocates.

  

  Norman Macbeth
  • Conviction
  • Adaptation
  • Inexplicable

• Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case...

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Reasons
  • Case
  • Merits