Raising Quotes - page 11

Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage. (Michael E. Porter)
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence. View quote
Nancy Kress
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. View quote
Natalie Babbitt
Wisdom's daughter walks alone-” "Ella!” Frank stood suddenly. "Maybe it's not the best time-”Ella continued, cupping her hands over her ears and raising her voice. View quote
Rick Riordan
People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves. View quote
Richard M. DeVos
Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth. View quote
Sy Montgomery
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie? View quote
Steven Kotler
The elder culture that is being improvised all around us day by day... promises to be the road toward a saner, more compassionate, more sustainable world-altogether, a more important turning point than ever presented itself in the 1960s... This, at last, is what the dissenting idealism of the 1960s was, in its highest and brightest expression, all about: a transformation of values that may finally reveal the goal of industrialization... In raising that possibility I cling to one hope. They grew up... reveling in their willingness to search beyond the limits of convention. ...What Boomers left undone in their youth, they will return to take up in their maturity... we have won years back from death. That gives us the grand project of using those extra years to build a culture that is morally remarkable. View quote
Theodore Roszak
Value innovation is created in the region where a company's actions favorably affect both its cost structure and its value proposition to buyers. Cost saving are made by eliminating and reducing the factors an industry competes on. Buyer value is lifted by raising and creating elements the industry has never offered. Over time, costs are reduced further as scale economics kick in due to the high sales volumes that superior value generates. View quote
W. Chan Kim
If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage. View quote
Frank Luntz
I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood. (Francesca Lia Block)
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. View quote
Barbara Delinsky
We're not raising children with the love that we need to. View quote
Bill Cosby
I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell. View quote
Brandon Lee
My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money. View quote
Gaby Hoffmann
When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables. View quote
Debi Mazar
What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that. View quote
Dave Ramsey
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. View quote
Alex Berenson
I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man. View quote
Jean Liedloff
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars? View quote
Edward St Aubyn
I'm not saying that if you're working at home, raising a family, that's not work. I want to disrupt the narrative around what it means to be a woman who works. The whole point of my brand is that women should be architecting the lives they want to live. (Ivanka Trump)
Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look..." Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. "Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system. View quote
Michael Greger
Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack. View quote
Michael Greger
Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax. View quote
Robert F. Engle