Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes

If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
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  • Ego

• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • System
  • Finding

• In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Understanding
  • System

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
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• The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

  

  Earl Browder
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• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
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  • Clothes
  • Will

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
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  • Problem

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Credit
  • Gotten

• Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

  

  Saad Hariri
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• The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Problem

• When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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  • System
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• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Family
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  • Keeping

• The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
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• The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
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• I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

  

  Jules Verne
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• Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  

  William Butler Yeats
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• The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Present
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• Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • See
  • Manager
  • Athens

• If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • Problem
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