Scarcest Quotes & Sayings

We have all learned everything we know physically - from walking to running a marathon - by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill. — Amby Burfoot

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night. — Woody Allen

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones") — Thomas Hardy

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource. — Edsger Dijkstra

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors. — Eddie Murphy

Time is the scarcest resource ... — Peter Drucker

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. — Robert A. Heinlein

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. — Peter Drucker

Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said.
"You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ... — Larry McMurtry

That's got to be Nix," Benny said as he pulled the door open. "Hey, sweetie ... "
Morgie Mitchell and Lou Chong stood on the black porch.
"Um," said Chong, "hello to you, too, sugar lumps. — Jonathan Maberry

The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right — Donella Meadows

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. — Susanna Moodie

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing. — Fred Brooks

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid. — Maggie Stiefvater

He'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to live every remaining day to the fullest - or quite the opposite: an evasion. An equally ardent determination to distract herself, from what only she could know, and thus a complete failure to inhabit her life in the scarcest respect. — Lionel Shriver

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside. — Charlie Chaplin

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. — Peter Drucker

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.. In a world of hyper abundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources. — Paul Saffo

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. — Thomas Haden Church

I won't deny that I'm in touch with my feminine side. If I'm in a lift and there's no one in there, I'll have a glance and check my hair. And if there's someone in there, I'll still check it. — Jack P. Shepherd