J. C. Macaulay Quotes

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

J. C. Macaulay

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• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Free
  • Minimum Wage

• Good design should be honest.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Good
  • Design
  • Honest

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Found

• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
  • Like
  • Dreams
  • Hopes

• In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Sweet

• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
  • First
  • Curiosity
  • Patient

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Help
  • Technique
  • Physical

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

  

  Anton Yelchin
  • People

• My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Kind

• Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human or animal mind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Creation

• The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  

  J. C. Macaulay
  • Great
  • Men
  • Giving