William Stanley Jevons Quotes

There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.

William Stanley Jevons

• Littles
• Certain
• Cost
• Labour
• Comparison
• Ingenuity
• Exertion

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• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Light
  • See
  • Darkness

• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • You
  • Pain
  • Talent

• But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Love
  • Think
  • Death

• So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Going

• The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Day
  • Will

• I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Farm
  • Beef

• I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Want
  • Poet
  • Bottles

• The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Emotional
  • Connection
  • Connections

• Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Culture

• You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.

  

  T.I.
  • Up
  • Time
  • Ifs

• Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Remember
  • Success
  • inspirational

• At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Things

• Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Maturity
  • Shelter
  • VIstas

• The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Care
  • Animal

• Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• It appears that it started in the living room, but we're not 100 percent certain of that.

  

  Marc Nelson Boyz II Men
  • Living
  • Certain
  • Percent

• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Compulsion
  • Amusement

• When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Mother
  • Baby
  • Wanted

• There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Littles
  • Certain
  • Cost