David Blanchflower Quotes

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

David Blanchflower

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• There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Parent
  • Loss
  • Prepare

• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Star
  • Win

• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • School
  • Risk

• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over

• I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Bad

• The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Solutions
  • Determined
  • Both

• In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Future
  • Name
  • Jewelry

• Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Why
  • Know

• I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Mornings

• When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Loved
  • Kid

• By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Population
  • Local
  • Whale

• Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • High
  • Integrity
  • Transparent

• No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Model
  • Economic
  • Where

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Chance

• Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Satisfaction
  • Customers

• In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Business
  • Idea
  • Performance

• When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could end up with a protracted civil war. That we're now in a stalemate was both entirely predictable, and predicted. That we're now relying on drones is disturbing. How vital can a cause be if we're not willing to risk American lives to defend it, and instead use robots and remote control operators? It gets me back to the larger feeling about the intervention - there's just not a compelling reason for us to be involved.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Country
  • American
  • Involved

• If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Purpose
  • Evil
  • Dangerous

• We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

  

  David Blanchflower
  • Economy
  • Satisfaction
  • Population