Alastair Humphreys Quotes

Start small, do what you do with enthusiasm and do it very well. Stick to that and growth will come.

Alastair Humphreys

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• If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Growth

• A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Proud
  • Hurt
  • Start

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Start

• I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Time
  • Change
  • Day

• I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Start

• If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Job
  • History
  • Society

• Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Sometimes
  • Growth
  • Personal

• Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Saying
  • Asset

• We've got to stop pandering and start leading.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Leading

• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feel
  • Blue
  • Start

• I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Better

• The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Start

• Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Character
  • Growth
  • Facts

• I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut interest rates, and that is the way they support growth, but if you cut interest rate to the bone, there is nothing more to cut. It is very hard to support growth beyond that.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Way
  • Support
  • Growth

• It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Better
  • Start

• A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Growth

• Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Past
  • Giving

• Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

  

  Alonzo King
  • Art
  • Growth
  • Inheritance

• From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • Why
  • Age
  • Understanding

• Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Done
  • Home

• Start small, do what you do with enthusiasm and do it very well. Stick to that and growth will come.

  

  Alastair Humphreys
  • Growth
  • Start
  • Enthusiasm