Peter Maurer Quotes

There is a clear business case for building the resilience and capacity of local communities, businesses, and institutions because a peaceful, educated, and productive population will stimulate economic growth in the long term.

Peter Maurer

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GrowthBusinessBuildingResilience

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

Jennifer Lawrence

MeGunSomeoneHousePersonKnow

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

John Cornwell

BestPeopleWorldShortPovertyWay

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

Angela Kinsey

HeartPlaceSpecialWorkingPull

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Andy Grove

LeadershipTodayPressureMoreAct

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

John Philip Sousa

MusicChildhoodDesireRealAnything

'One Tree Hill' gave me my first shot into acting, and they gave me the biggest chance, and that's something that I'll always respect and be grateful for.

Stephen Colletti

RespectTreeGratefulMeChance

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

Tory Lanez

GreatJobSchoolMomentsAlwaysOut

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.

Tom Hodgkinson

HappinessPowerDayManagementFind

I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

Mary Ellen Mark

LifeTimeCircusSameEverything

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

Moby

MusicCatchOnlyWouldEclectic

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Jaron Lanier

WrongWayMoreRightThingsBeen

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Dirk Benedict

ImpossibleParentPlaceDifficult

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