Edmund Phelps Quotes

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

Edmund Phelps

• Father
• College
• Challenge

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• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Father
  • Play
  • Right

• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Father
  • Thought
  • Would

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Bike

• If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenge

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Moving Forward

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• 'Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be celebrated and sanctified...' whispered my father.For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • Why
  • May

• After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • American
  • College

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Island

• I was a cheerleader for nine years!

  

  Betsey Johnson

• The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Children

• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Father
  • College
  • Challenge