Quantity Quotes - Page 10

• I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

  Maurice Ravel

  Littles, Composer, Worst

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• Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sex, Fall, Simplicity

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• Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Increase, Rendering

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

  Gregory Bateson

  Insomnia, Principles, Patterns

  "Not Ours to Exploit" by Terry Tempest Williams, progressive.org. February 23, 2012.

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• The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Language, Importance

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• Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

  Andrew Solomon

  People, Needs, Belief

  Andrew Solomon (2017). “Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity, and with a monetary system which rigidly links the quantity of money to the stock of the precious metals, it will be essential for the maintenance of prosperity that the authorities should pay close attention to the state of the balance of trade. For a favourable balance, provided it is not too large, will prove extremely stimulating; whilst an unfavourable balance may soon produce a state of persistent depression.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Balance, Essentials, Attention

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.307, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.

  Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

  Animal, People, Profound

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• In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

  Arthur Balfour

  Life, Real, Work

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• There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.

  Alan Turing

  Art, Mean, Choices Made

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Statistics

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

  Milton Friedman

  Investing, Output, Rapids

  Milton Friedman (1994). “Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

  David Ricardo

  Air, Water, Gold

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Quality, Information

  Brian TRACY (2009). “Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.13, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

  Sydney Brenner

  House, Tests, Chemistry

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• The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Political, Gold, Merit

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• So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

  Paul Krugman

  Unemployment, Wages, Minimum Wage

  "Krugman Contra Krugman on the Minimum Wage?" by Benjamin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2013.

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• After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Math, Arise

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• A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

  An Na

  Focus, Quality, Improvement

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• I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Squares, Roots

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.193, Modern Library

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• Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

  Isaac Asimov

  Love, Tinkering, Seems

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Book, Quality

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  Isaac Newton

  Space, People, Bears

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.

  Alan Lightman

  Interesting, Target

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.25, Vintage

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• The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's lands.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Land, Rivers

  "The Book of the Indians of North America". Book by Samuel G. Drake, 1835.

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