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Douglass North Quotes

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1920 - November 23, 2015

Topics

Life Research My Life Impression

Leap, and the net will appear.

Motivational Will Leap Net Appear

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

Time Walk People Language You Look

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

John Petit-Senn

Never Take Give Pleasures Tire

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

Me You Acting I Can Know Kind

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Bird Fly Speed Will See Natural

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Direction Year Partying Zero Been

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

Truth People Truth Is Find Try Take

I want to change a lot.

Change Want Lot

Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.

Anne Graham Lotz

God Mistakes Moving Forward Moving

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Population Ratio Increases

It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.

Power People Philosophy Place Want

If you find a node that you can penetrate, that you can eliminate, and draw more information for future operations, I think it's prudent to do.

Future Think You Information Find

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