“There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.”
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Wise Quotes — page 69 of 916
“The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.”
“Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.”
“We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.”
“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”
“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
“Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."”
“It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.”
“This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.”
“It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.”
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
“Do yourself what you wish others to do.”
“Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.”
“The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.”
“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
“Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.”
“Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.”
“My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.”