“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.” FirstsHardAgeTroubleConditionsInformationThousandAccountsFinancialCurrentsInvestorsAccurateReservesVeilsMonetaryFleeingAccurate Information Author:Lawrence Summers
“Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.” HardMoralPracticeConditionsHard Work Author:John Wooden
“Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.” WorldLittlesHardEconomyEnvironmentConditionsSafetyWorkersExposedRegulationInnovativeSafety Net Author:Richard Attias
“I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.” MenChildrenHardSchoolHousePayFourConditionsPrayingOur ChildrenBedroomBe A ManI PrayBedroom House Author:Muhammad Ali
“How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.” ThinkingHardTodayConditionsFutureProjectsOneselfPermanent Book:My Days Source: My Days
“I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.” KnowsBelieveHardSoundGoneConditionsHabitAncestorPersistHard To BelieveGone Away Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.” SoulHardSeemsConditionsExpressionOriginals Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.” MenMadeHardLastsTermStruggleConditionsWords Of WisdomDiscoveryEvery ManBuried Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.” ThinkingHardRunningSportsGoalChangeChancePerfectStepsConditionsErrorsTinySatisfiedExtrasRealisticRacingMarginsVariablesSkisCool ThingsOne ChanceRealistic GoalsSki Racing Author:Ted Ligety
“Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard.” WayMeanHardConditionsDamnBullshit Author:Lil Wayne
“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks” PeopleIfsSelfHardEasyDifficultEffortConditionsMastersHard WorkLowsTasksEfficacySelf EfficacyDifficult TasksEasy TasksMinimal Effort Author:Albert Bandura
“In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.” WayHardLosesConditionsWeightCampsHolocaustTerrifiedSkinnyStarvingEmulateLose WeightNonsensicalEstrogen Author:Erica Jong
“Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.” PeopleTryingHardUsedWhiteConditionsDangerousHard WorkCitizensOrganizationStrategyWorkersCriminalsVulnerableReformArrangementsConformNormConstituentsHard Worker Author:Dean Spade
“You've got to be dedicated to train as hard as you can, for as long as you can, because in any sport, and especially this environment, there's a lot of contact. It's all about conditioning and good preparation to keep your body in the best condition possible to play games.” LongHardPlayBodyGamesSportsEnvironmentConditionsTrainYour BodyContactPreparationDedicatedConditioning Author:Filo Tiatia
“I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.” IfsMadeHardHandsSeemsMy OwnPerfectMistakeHalfToo MuchTroubleConditionsAllowingPerfectionistPerfect ConditionsWorking Too Hard Author:Howard Hughes
“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.” ThinkingWorldHeartLittlesHardBodyFacesFightingTermBusinessConditionsTerribleFairsHardshipNew WorldCommerceBentGraciousPioneersLittle TimeExplorersTime To ThinkAmerican LifeForefathersHardenedDynamiteHead And HeartCommercialismIndomitableIndomitable Will Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.” HardSituationConditionsPainfulMidstFaithfulnessGod's Faithfulness Author:David Wilkerson
“The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHumansHas BeensImportantHardTermViewsImpossibleConditionsPolicyConservativeCampaignsPresidentialLatterHuman ConditionJohnsonSkepticPublic PolicyPresidential CampaignJohn Kennedy Author:James Q. Wilson
“I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.” WayFeelsWarHardSocialConditionsDirectIgnorantJustifiedSocial Conditions Author:PJ Harvey
“There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.” PeopleHardConditionsToughRise AboveToughness Author:Michael Elliott