Paul Samuelson (Paul Anthony Samuelson) Quotes

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

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• I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Age
  • Kind

• I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • May
  • Sleep
  • Advice

• During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Baby
  • Race
  • Machine

• You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Stop
  • Leadership

• We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Humanity

• none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Life
  • Book
  • Learning

• My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Cutting

• I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Never
  • Learned

• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Style

• Life would be dull without them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Dull

• The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • School
  • High
  • Rock

• Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Death
  • Path

• The Clinton administration has coddled dictators as few have coddled before.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Administration
  • Clinton
  • Dictators

• I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Why
  • Personality
  • TV

• If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Faith
  • Holy Life

• If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Business
  • Ways
  • Politicians

• The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

  

  Steve Ballmer
  • Technology
  • Creative
  • Potential

• No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Want
  • Beautiful

• As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Help

• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  

  Paul Samuelson
  • Companies
  • Workers
  • Profits