Molly Ivins Quotes

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

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• Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Will
  • Results
  • Uncertainty

• Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Results

• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Good
  • Results
  • Got

• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Results
  • Corruption

• Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Founders

• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Results

• When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Work
  • Results

• The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Risk
  • Person
  • Results

• I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Attention
  • Understanding
  • Idea

• Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Australia or Curacao. And what's even more distressing is the fact that I've gotten the same results using the exercise with adults in Scotland and Australia in the year 2002 that I got using the exercise with children in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Exercise
  • Results
  • Berlin

• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Person
  • Results
  • Activates

• At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Results
  • Motivated
  • University

• Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Results
  • Get
  • Myth

• Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

  

  Confucius
  • Goal
  • Results
  • Result

• I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Results
  • Welcome
  • Precision

• Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Results
  • Workings

• The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Results
  • Disappointed

• A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Existence
  • Results
  • Conditions

• I talk about millennials with a healthy dose of humility, as I'm a card-carrying member of Generation X. But I have daily interaction with young people at Dana Perino & Co., through my Minute Mentoring organization, with digital friends on social media, and especially at Fox News.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Daily

• My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Learn
  • Situation
  • Teachers

• A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Mind
  • Educated
  • Cultivated

• Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

  

  William Goldman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Failure

• The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Results
  • Founders