Maximum Quotes - Page 6

• The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Irony, Universe

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• Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Emotional, Issues, Alliances

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2015). “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Growth, Assumption

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• People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  People, Effort, Release

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

  Josef Koudelka

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• First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Order, Maximum Number, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not my job. The Weinstein company, it's their job to convince people. My job was to make the movie. That's what I did. I know what we did in France was to have the maximum screenings just to let people talk about the movie and say they enjoyed the movie.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Jobs, People, France

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology.

  Laurence Meyer

  Communication, Technology, Two

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• I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Stress, Eye, Exercise

  Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.47, MIT Press

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• Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.

  Lyall Watson

  Reflection, Reality, Opposites

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• I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Believe, Topics, Environment

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• The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.

  Leopold Auer

  Eight, Practice, Play

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• Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.

  Alfie Kohn

  Difficulty, Optimal

  Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maximum individuality within maximum community

  Immanuel Kant

  Community, Individuality

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• An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

  Robert Greene

  Ecosystems, Diversity, Amount

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• The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

  James Cook

  Progress, Economic, Social

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• The way to get a maximum rate of 'economic growth' assuming this to be our aim - is to give maximum encouragement to production, employment, saving, and investment. And the way to do this is to maintain a free market and a sound currency.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Encouragement, Giving, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.135, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Art, School, Play

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• The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a surplus? Have the government legislate a minimum price that is above the price that would otherwise prevail. That is what we have done at one time or another to produce surpluses of wheat, of sugar, of butter, of many other commodities. Do you want a shortage? Have the government legislate a maximum price that is below the price that would otherwise prevail.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, May, Want

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that people are able to see that I am working hard, that I am striving openly, honestly and sincerely to achieve the results the results our country needs. I think that they are also able to see that not all goes well. Our people are smart and sharp-sighted. Yet, I believe that the main thing is to sincerely aspire to achieve the maximum, so that the country feels more secure and people live better. That's precisely how I am trying to go about my work.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

  Chuck Close

  Information, Subjects, Amount

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• Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Sister In Law, Mind

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The culture war in America can best be described by the battle between workin' hard, playin' hard s - tkickers that bust our ass to make America strong by earning our own way and kickin' maximum ass versus soulless weaklings who have been brainwashed into thinking they are entitled to a free ride.

  Ted Nugent

  Strong, War, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Men, Harder, Train

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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