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“We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east where you got people getting beheaded it's like the crusades with Twitter. It's crazy, human nature does the same thing. In a way, even though you're in the future people wanted order so this sort of system rose up.”

People Ifs Way Humans Looks Doe Ideas Today Wanted Past Order Crazy Middle Human Nature Lows Rose East Repeats Middle East Crusades

Author:Alfred Gough

“The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds in your plan and you see that they're all charging 1.5 and 2 percent,you've gota bad plan.”

Ifs Knows Looks Plans Keys Lows Percent Fund Expenses Charging Key Things

Author:William J. Bernstein

“It goes without saying that what a girl goes through, boys could not even comprehend. If we get the flu, we need a week. We're idiots. But what was the most powerful realization to me was, how do single mothers with a low income cope? I can't complain about my dumb life. That's what was most revelatory to me.”

Ifs Needs I Can Mother Girl Powerful Boys Week Lows Complaining Income Realization Dumb Idiot Most Powerful Flu Single Mother Low Income

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.”

Ifs Believe Past I Believe Levels Honest Politician Lows Glory Paid Thanks Colony Thirteen

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.”

Culture Youth Honor Lows Golf Score Tournaments Youth Culture Golf Tournaments

Book:Time Flies

Source: Time Flies

“The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'”

Thinking I Can Stories Television Lows Hollywood Bases Including Factors Posts Score Empires Standing Out Barbarians Horde Movie Making Old Hollywood

Author:Ben Hecht

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.”

Literature Games Church Despair Singing Lows Empty Critical Pale Calories Priesthood

Book:William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

“I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?”

Want Hard Enough Lows Expectations Settling Low Expectations Marriage Is Hard

Author:Nora Ephron

“If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.”

Ifs Way Firsts Next Principles Lows Alcohol Lists Substance Marijuana Tobacco Cocaine The Next One

Author:Noam Chomsky

“High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.”

Ifs Enough Hands Practice Risk Lows Standards Organization Clean Excellence Reputation Dirty Accommodate Questionable Organizational

Author:Price Pritchett

“The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.”

Mean Lows Investors Volatility

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.”

Blood Normal Lows Nervous Plus Chemicals Sugar Adulthood Adolescence Breakdown Imbalance Nervous Breakdown Blood Sugar

Author:Mel Brooks

“Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.”

Men Fall Higher Lows

Book:Critical Writings

Source: Critical Writings

“Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.”

Men Law Jesus Lord Wise Cold Drink Prove Lows Conscience Mercy Flesh Sinner Wounded Avoiding Sober Veils Our Lord Moses

Author:William Tyndale

“The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.”

Want Mean Helping Goal Technology Example Industry Cost Prove Lows Customers Vehicle Electric Volume Carbon Emissions Tesla Carbon Emissions Auto Industry Electric Vehicles

Author:Elon Musk

“Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.”

Economy Economic Policy Lows Innovation Rate Financial Spread Saving Regulation Consumption Savings Inappropriate Derivatives Economic Policy Supervision Macro

Author:Wen Jiabao

“I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I like technology. I like music. I like movies. I like to go out and party. I like my cigars, but I don't drink, and I do like to keep a low profile.”

Party Technology Drink Computer Lows End Times Spend Time Profile Cigar

Author:Carlos Delgado

“Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!”

Thinking Men Wells Lows Bottom Climbs Summit

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don't need much around me. I'm easy don't need a lot of racket.”

Needs Easy Keys Lows Surroundings Racket Low Key

Author:Randy Moss

“Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.”

Trying Focus Lows Balls Strikes Zone Catchers

Author:Ubaldo Jimenez

“I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.”

Trying Hard Play Games Taught Lows Tough Baseball Tough Games

Author:Chase Utley

“The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

People Thinking Trying Life Is Enjoy Water Simple Conflict Lows Fairs All Things Supreme Compare Generous Tao Family Life Governing Dwelling Disdain

Author:Laozi

“The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.”

Believe Facts Pleasure Principles Expression Lows Constant Quantity Hypothesis Dominance Endeavour

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.”

Knows Needs Lows Swear Where You Belong

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong”

Feels Risk Wind Safe Lows Investment Investing

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.”

People Life Is Goal Failing Achieve Lows Sight Tragedy Great Tragedy

Author:Michelangelo

“If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we will have the opportunity of replacing it with a low consumption economy that can endure.”

Ifs Opportunity Force Economy Lows Endure Consumers Preserves Consumption Ecological

Author:Alan Thein Durning

“One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.”

Force Lows Arise Stations Fraud

Book:The Portable Machiavelli

Source: The Portable Machiavelli

“Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.”

Long Doe Values Cost Equal Long Time Lows Brands Equity Decrease

Author:Tom Peters

“Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.”

People Knows Drug Lows Harder Load Hiv Infection Transmit Viral Hiv Positive

Author:Dale Peck

“I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.”

Cutting Hair Lows Expectations Broke Contracts Hair Cut

Author:Cristin Milioti

“Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.”

Stories Young Certain Media Particular Findings Lows Mediums Brows

Author:Corey Stoll

“I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are prejudiced against them. So it's one of the many reasons I like horror and it's also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.”

People Reason Love Is Horror Lows Budgets Underdog

Author:Jason Blum

“There are so many highs and lows for an athlete. But the highs outweigh the lows.”

Lows Athlete Highs And Lows

Author:Diandra Asbaty

“You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.”

Long Character Film Lows Budgets Chemistry Compelling Believability

Author:Mark McGrath

“It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.”

Ifs Thinking Jobs Challenges Ready Lows Expectations Bars Exceed

Author:Will Packer

“I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!”

Done Kids Film Fun Huge Lows Exciting Budgets More Time Playgrounds Indie Films

Author:Felicity Jones

“I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone.”

Home Lost Week Summer Lows British Finished Boat Fourth Fifth

Author:Byron Nelson

“When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.”

May Rich Lows Assets

Author:John Mihaljevic

“I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.”

Should Has Beens Stills Home Form Player Fans Style Football Huge Amount Lows Ideals England Rate Admire Shirts Spain Profile Liverpool Scholes Paul Scholes Midfielders

Author:Xabi Alonso

“Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.”

Source: Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career

“I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member.”

Country Members Lows Standards Clubs Country Clubs

Author:Groucho Marx

“There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.”

Taxes Lows Affair Sinister Arranging

Book:The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand

Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand

“The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.”

People Company Lows Garden Blame Profit Odd Ceo Obamacare Olives Olive Garden

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when experience has shown them that far too many solutions come packaged with a high degree of risk and a low probability of success.”

Values Sound Decision Struggle Risk Achieve Degrees Solutions Lows Missions Critical Customers Wrestling Probability Critical Decisions

Book:Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High!

Source: Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High!

“The traditional selling models, methods, and techniques that most of us have been trained to use work best in small sales. For now, let me define small as a sale which can normally be completed in a single call and which involves a low dollar value. Unfortunately, these tried-and-true low-value sales techniques, most of them dating from the 1920s, don't work today.”

Has Beens Use Today Values Models Lows Let Me Dating Method Dollars Technique Selling Traditional

Book:SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff

Source: SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff

“One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.”

Christian Spiritual Desire Religious Christianity Thousand Lows Passionate Fallen Orthodox Estates Thirst Foe Complacency Christian Faith Orthodox Christianity Thirst For God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal's always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.”

Way Want Looks Real Goal Crazy Lows Legs

Author:Kirstie Alley

“Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.”

“No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.”

Matter Lows Basements Unexplored

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

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