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• Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Opportunity, People

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• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  Ben Bernanke

  Business, Support, Principles

  "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". Ben Bernanke's Remarks Before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002.

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Desperate, Cowardice

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• To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Life, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

  William James

  Failure, Fire, Use

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1225, Library of America

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• Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you
  in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor
  to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its
  loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't
  catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

  Judith Martin

  Summer, Cheer, Food

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• In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.

  Antoine Pinay

  Freedom, Reality, Men

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• We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

  John Ruskin

  Community, Would Be, Charity

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• Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

  Karl Brandt

  Men, Brain, Intelligence

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• In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Order, Intelligence

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• The basic economic resource - the means of production -
  is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
  It is and will be knowledge.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge, Mean, Learning

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• Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

  Jacob Abbott

  Children, Learning, Intellectual

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• We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Nature, Iron, Oil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.73, Cornell University Press

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• Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Believe, Animal

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.202, Counterpoint Press

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• We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nature, Animal, Law

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• Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

  John Foster Dulles

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

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• ...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

  Aristotle

  Men, Politics, Action

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• The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

  Peter Drucker

  Individuality, Society, Our Society

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• I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

  Michael Chekhov

  Imagination, Acting, Actors

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• Your greatest resource is your time.

  Brian Tracy

  Time, Earning, Assets

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2015

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• The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Animal, Wind

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have no resources of our own. We are as impoverished in worship times as a baby unable to provide its own bottle at feeding time. God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.

  Judson Cornwall

  Baby, Children, Inspiration

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• Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Lying

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". "Ted Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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• Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

  Kofi Annan

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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