William Vickrey Quotes

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

William Vickrey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: June 21, 1914 - October 11, 1996

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I've laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I've been to, because everyone's so serious. And there are a lot of people speaking publicly, which makes you understand why it's people's number one fear - because everyone shouldn't do it.

Jerrod Carmichael

FearPeopleTryingYouUnderstand

There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.

John Hagel III

PeopleWorldUncertaintyPressure

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

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If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Tom Hooper

FocusLongYouLookKnowHollywood

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

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Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.

Michael Nesmith

ThinkingYouLookDinosaursIndustry

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Louis Sullivan

ManMindDoingLongLateUnknown

I'm always walking around with headphones on, creating my own soundtracks to whatever the day is. I think I have a poppy sensibility.

Jonathan Levine

DayThinkWalkingCreatingMy Own

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

Jonah Hill

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I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'

Don Lemon

LifeWalkSorryFeelKindNever

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

Deepika Padukone

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'Dancing With the Stars' really opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm so grateful for that.

Chelsea Kane

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