“The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.” WaterAirEffectsCostPicksFuelPollutionEconomistFossilsFossil FuelAir And WaterBurning Fossil FuelsWater Pollution Author:Jeff Goodell
“When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?” WantWaitingCostPicks Book:Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
“The biggest weakness of the green-consumer movement, always, is that we tend to pick the easy-to-do things because that's where we can most readily engage people. It doesn't cost them very much to switch products or whatever it happens to be.” PeopleHappensEasyMovementProductsCostPicksWeaknessGreenConsumers Author:John Elkington
“We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"” PeopleWayChildrenKidsAsksPoorCarCostApproachPicksDoctorsTranquility Author:James Hillman
“This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and the left who will pick apart every little thing. We are inherently dramatizing Hillary Rodham, or Hillary Clinton, who's a very famous figure. There's a lot of biographies about her, but there's also elements that are private moments, that are dramatized with an arc, and we have to take creative license. Everything is sort of a cost-benefit.” NeedsLittlesMomentsPoliticalLeftLevelsCreativeFiguresCostElementsBenefitsPicksClintonLittle ThingsBiographiesStrainLicenseArcsJunkieVery Famous Author:James Ponsoldt
“I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't cut anything off, don't limit yourself. Give it a good listen: you might find something in that goofy Sun Ra noise, that dissonance. Before I learned 'official musicality' - which you should avoid at all costs - I listened to some Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane and that's where 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' came from. When you intentionally and aggressively pursue musical communication with those powerfully impactful musical geniuses, you will pick up something.” PeopleGivingShouldTryingMindMightSunCuttingJourneyCommunicationGeniusCostLimitsPicksMusicalNoisePursueCupsOfficialsGoofyDissonanceColtraneMusicalityMusical Genius Author:Ted Nugent
“I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.” GovernmentOughtCostProjectsPicksDecidedLots Of MoneyControversial Author:Barbara Bush