Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Tina Brown

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

Wentworth Miller

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

The (past) studies that reported a negative net energy assumed one should ignore co-products.

Brian Kernighan

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.

Bill Hader

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

Wole Soyinka

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

The announcement is hardly surprising, but I wouldn't necessarily regard it as definitive. I don't assume that the Sovereign board can unilaterally make these decisions.

Joe Flaherty

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

We have always assumed that data stored on mobile phones is safe. Today we use our mobile phones to send sensitive data, store important information and even digitally sign on major documents. There is, therefore, greater threat to data security on mobile phones today.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

Seal

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

Mark McKinnon

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

Oscar Isaac

Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

Milton Friedman

Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another

Mike assumed the role, with a young team, that he had to assume. He was sensational on both ends. I think some of these younger kids will play better Saturday night after getting a taste of playoff action.

We have officers in those areas. We are still trapping. We have to assume that we might not have the bear we want. Until we can positively identify that bear, we are going to assume we don't have it.

We just assume politics is corrupt and a little bit of corruption is the cost of doing business.

Willie Randolph

You kind of flinch a little bit, when you see can see that both of them have a bead on it. When the guys start laying out a little bit, leaning toward the ball, that's when you assume that maybe something nasty could happen. Very scary.

Tony Dungy

You just have to play football. You have to read your keys and believe it, and you can't relax. You have to be on top of your job whether you're front line on the kick returns, on the punt return or fake field goals. It's just part of your job that you have to read your keys, and you can't assume that anything is going to take place.

You just cannot assume the local water is safe. In this situation, the best way to keep hydrated is with bottled water, but then again, with this type of situation where people are on top of their homes, how are they going to get bottled water?

You can assume that every time you make a change to your fulfillment, it's going to get messed up. You should count on losing at least half a month's revenue.

You can assume he's going to be tried

Ryan Hollins

We can't even think about being in first place, because you saw Washington lost two games last weekend. One game and we're tied. You got to bring it every night, you can't concede any game or just assume that we're going to win it.

I think it would be fair to assume that he has left.

Just because criminal charges have been filed doesn't mean we can get complacent and assume the molestation charges will get him locked up. We're sure the prosecutors will welcome any new witnesses.

Michael Ballack

We've talked. You can assume that I had a good feeling during that conversation. I have a feeling for myself and I know what I want.

Gary Gordon

We can always take a doctor's license, but let's assume that we live in a country in which, if you've paid your debt to society, that you can be rehabilitated.

John Sullivan

We are not seeking any monetary damages. All we want is the ATP to assume responsibility they should have before and change the rules back and protect the game of doubles.