Elinor Ostrom Quotes
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.Elinor Ostrom
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
Rae Carson -
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie -
It's healthy to have interests besides books.
Patrick deWitt -
Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
Gail Simmons
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
Uday Kiran -
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
Jack Straw -
I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer -
If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
Felix Feneon -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
J. J. Watt -
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Samuel Gompers -
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
Sam Kinison -
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour -
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation.
Albert Bandura -
I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
Morgan Freeman -
I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
Olivia Colman -
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
Elinor Ostrom