Resource Quotes - page 2

The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources. (Richard Lewontin)
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist. View quote
Peter Drucker
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. View quote
Walt Disney
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility. View quote
Nikola Tesla
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource. View quote
Nicholas Negroponte
The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages. View quote
John Henry Holland
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions. View quote
John Henry Holland
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. View quote
Alan Kay
To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense it is undemocratic, for it assumes that some people really know better in a way that must seem arbitrary to most. In a large sense it is certainly democratic, in that it makes the great man serve as a man. (Paul Goodman)
Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry. Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory. Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible--from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius of our scientists. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Anything that helps us know ourselves more deeply, love ourselves more fully, improve our social connections with family and friends, and engage us more completely with the earth, animals, and environment, is a good resource for healing. View quote
Jed Diamond
Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment. View quote
David C. McClelland
Failure: the renewable resource. View quote
Kay Ryan
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. View quote
Biz Stone
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. View quote
Bonnie Raitt
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential. View quote
Christopher Dodd
Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. View quote
Dale Archer
It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. (Edward Zwick)
A pupil is a great resource. View quote
Hudson Stuck
Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north. View quote
Jean Charest
Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country. View quote
Jim Gerlach
Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist. View quote
Joe Bastianich