Cournot Nash Quotes & Sayings

Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land! — Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

Ask the questions. Do not just accept anything without question. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it. — Cesar Chavez

Since the beginning is where things seem perfect and the ending is always tragic, why don't we skip to the middle? There're good things in the middle. — Jay Crownover

In fact, the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. — John Thie

SUMMARY In this chapter we have focused on three ways to analyze and solve communication problems - through component, transactional, and life-space analysis. Component analysis uses a "snapshot" approach to study the speaker, the message, and the listener. Transactional analysis takes a "motion picture" review of the way communication partners respond to each other (as an Adult, Parent, or Child). Life-space analysis takes a "panoramic" view of the environment or total situation which affects the way a person — Paul W. Swets

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own. — P.D. James

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread — Charles Bukowski

High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege. — Patricia Marx

Most families have increased the speed of their lives and the number of their activities gradually--even unconsciously--over time. They realize that there are costs to a consistently fast-paced, hectic schedule, but they've adjusted. And looking around, there always seems to be another family that does everything you do, and more, managing to squeeze in skiing, or Space Camp, or French horn lessons on top of everything else. How do they do it?
They do it by never asking 'Why?' Why do our kids need to be busy all of the time? Why does our son, age twelve, need to explore the possibility of space travel? Why do we feel we must offer everything? Why must it all happen now? Why does tomorrow always seem a bit late? Why would we rather squeeze more things into our schedules than to see what happens over time? What happens when we stop, when we have free time? — Kim John Payne

Don't ever accuse me of being objective. — Paul Conrad