Discover Your Inner Economist Quotes & Sayings

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. — Eugenio Montale

You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism. — Bunker Roy

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious. — Dan Farmer

Empowerment is the intentional absence of negativity. — Stephanie Lennox

There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it. — Ronald D. Moore

No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. — Peter S. Beagle

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? — Alain De Botton

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe ... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the ... public. — Tyler Cowen

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end. — Abraham Lincoln

In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles. — DeWitt Henry Parker

twirling in his fingers the mummy of a cigar, — Vladimir Nabokov

The pursuit of the crucified crown follows the performance of the crucified King such that both performances go against the power structures of the world that think victory and power come only through aggressive and violent means. — Matt Farlow