Noncontroversial Quotes & Sayings

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details. — Henry Mintzberg

Research at NYU and elsewhere is underscoring just how blind the "us-vs-them" mind-set can make people when they try to process new political information. Once this partisanship mentality kicks in, the brain almost automatically pre-filters facts - even noncontroversial ones - that offend our political sensibilities. — Mary Katharine Ham

We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person. — Warren Buffett

The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product. — Ada Yonath

As a company, we don't contribute to any cause except noncontroversial things like a breast cancer walk. I don't know anybody who is 'for' breast cancer. — Richard Hayne

Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards. — J. F. Lawton

The beautiful changes
In such kind ways,
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder. — Richard Wilbur

It is never too late to master your weaknesses. — Jane Fonda

We Americans, we're a simple people ... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities. — Robin Williams

While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly. — Todd Stocker

It's nice when people approach you to help. — Aida Turturro

I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results — Milton Friedman

The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber. — Victor Hugo