Edward C. Prescott Quotes

A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.

Edward C. Prescott

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• A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Support
  • Emotional
  • Child

• I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Say
  • Paint
  • Hot

• I buy way too many books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Way
  • Books
  • Buy

• I don't have any regrets at all.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Regrets
  • Any

• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Day

• The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Film
  • First
  • Two

• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Learn
  • More

• I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Why
  • Question
  • Feel

• You were just a Small Bump unborn, in Four months you're brought to life.You might be left with my hair, but you'll have your Mother's eyes.I'll hold your body in my hands be as gentle as I can, but for now you're a scan of my unmade plans.Small bump, four months you are brought to life.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Small

• If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • She

• Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Emotional

• Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Walking

• If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Hate

• The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Life
  • Art
  • Soul

• Quiero por lo que quise, y lo que quise, no volvería a quererlo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.

  

  James Wolk
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Funny

• You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'

  

  Chris Hayes
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

  

  Avery Brundage
  • Sports

• At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.

  

  George Gilder
  • Mind
  • Real
  • School

• God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smil.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Voice
  • Rules
  • Harmony

• In friendship there is nothing more outstanding than faithfulness, which seems to be both the nurse and guardian of friendship.

  

  Aelred of Rievaulx
  • Friendship
  • Faithfulness
  • Guardian

• I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Up
  • Taken
  • Golf

• A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.

  

  Edward C. Prescott