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

• A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.

  

  Rene Redzepi
  • Things
  • Top
  • Necessarily

• I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Me
  • Special

• Good luck - it's always ready to use in case.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Always
  • Luck

• Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Believe
  • Forget
  • Reasons

• Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Experience
  • Reasons
  • Block

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

  

  John Maynard Keynes
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