Simon Kuznets Quotes

Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.

Simon Kuznets

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• The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Me
  • Without
  • Engagement

• I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Cancer

• I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Criticism

• The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Game
  • Story

• When I eat a meal, I think of all the people whose labor has contributed to my nourishment, and that thought nourishes my appreciation. I hope it nourishes you too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Hope
  • Appreciation

• Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Occasions
  • Lack
  • Civilisation

• I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Appreciation

• 'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel fairly secure with your appreciation of a character is about the time the show will gut-punch you.

  

  Lew Temple
  • Time
  • Character
  • Walking

• I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Appreciation
  • Gymnastics

• My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.

  

  Louis Bacon
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • People
  • Important
  • Appreciation

• I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
  • Mind
  • Design
  • Appreciation

• I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Art
  • History
  • Mother

• I have nothing but love for my time I spent in Denver, and appreciation, and gratitude.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Time
  • Gratitude
  • Appreciation

• Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.

  

  Louie Schwartzberg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Power

• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Winning

• I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Weather
  • Glad
  • Occasions

• The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Enough
  • Talking

• When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

  

  Jose Mujica
  • Solitude

• Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.

  

  Simon Kuznets
  • Appreciation
  • Memorable
  • Occasions