Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.

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• I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Goals

• We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Children
  • High
  • Beautiful

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

  

  Orson Welles
  • Genius
  • Denies

• Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Green
  • Loved
  • Teamwork

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Fool

• Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Same

• I think human nature is eternal and constant.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Human Nature

• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Book
  • Year
  • Research

• It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Fearless

• The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Road

• Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Right

• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Princess
  • Island
  • Ships

• The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.

  

  Arleigh Burke
  • Good
  • May
  • Government

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
  • Grace

• If state rights and laissez faire meant an end to force bills, removal of Federal troops from Southern state capitals, and abandonment of intervention in local politics and race discriminations, the South was for them strong. On the other hand the South had no patience with state rights and laissez faire if they implied abandonment of Federal subsidies, loans of credit, and internal improvements. Of these the South believed she had not had anything like her just share and she meant to have a lot more.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Rights
  • State
  • South

• Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

  

  Etta Semple
  • Freedom
  • Rights
  • Leads

• Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.

  

  Joseph Stiglitz
  • Development
  • Rights
  • Workers