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Michael Spence Quotes

The combination of a workable basic formula and the capacity to improve over time is what one hopes for in any aspect of society: business, government, the non-profit sector.

Michael Spence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1943

Topics

Business Time Government Society

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

Andrew Weil

Determination Mind Walking Remember

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

Andrea Bocelli

Beginning Value Singing Colleagues

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Andre Maurois

Family Alone Man World Cold Without

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

John Lennon

Eye Wake Up Think You Up Concert

Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.

John Mackey

Time Capitalism Short Fall Person

I've got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can't even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like 'Man's Fate.'

Michael Cimino

Walk Man Fate Go Room Ceiling

I have no desire to carry a movie.

Amy Sedaris

Desire Carry Movie No Desire

I have no first-strike capability. I never choose to go into battle first. But I won't back down.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Battle Choose Back Down Go Never

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

Robert B. Parker

Me Planning Hell Doing Credit You

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

Lois Lowry

Work Science Fall Know Three Say

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Jean Anouilh

Genius Without Obvious Understood

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

Chris Milk

Technology I Can Done Way Asking