Edward C. Prescott Quotes

If productivity grows, the economy does well.

Edward C. Prescott

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• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Bananas

• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Expect

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Forget
  • First
  • Lose

• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Why
  • Always
  • Flower

• Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Education

• The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  

  Chuck D
  • World
  • Music

• There is nothing more fundamental for public workers to know if they are going to be partly laid off.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia

• A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • America

• I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

  

  Jennifer Saunders

• I wanted to be the best in the world.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • World

• I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Up
  • Strong

• Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.

  

  David Caruso
  • Women

• I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson

• I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Design

• Always be in the process of making a beautiful life.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Life
  • Process
  • Make

• Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

  

  William Edgar
  • Protest
  • Consensus

• One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Preparation
  • Productivity
  • Performances

• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Trying
  • Productivity
  • Software

• If productivity grows, the economy does well.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Productivity