Stephen Hawking (Stephen William Hawking) Quotes

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Value
  • News
  • Tin

• Value is what you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Value
  • Get

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Day
  • Value

• It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Value
  • Daily

• The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Children
  • School
  • True

• Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Action
  • Government

• Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Action
  • More
  • Preparation

• I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Education
  • Value
  • System

• Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Value

• Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Value

• Without bolder action, our children won't have time to debate the existence of climate change. They'll be busy dealing with its effects: more environmental disasters, more economic disruptions, waves of climate refugees seeking sanctuary.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Action

• The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  

  Hannah More
  • Action

• As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Great
  • May
  • High

• Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Action
  • Justice

• Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

  

  Pericles
  • People
  • Action

• Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other. These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups. They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.

  

  Alan Briskin
  • Action
  • Collective
  • Commitments

• I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Die

• If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and an undeserving minority, then workers of all shades are going to be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fighting
  • Struggle
  • Framed

• There's upwards of nearly 800 franchises through Australia and New Zealand, and also we're starting to move into Dubai, China and Indonesia as well.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Franchises

• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  

  Stephen Hawking
  • Action
  • Value
  • Seek