Muhammad Yunus Quotes

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

Muhammad Yunus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
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  • Birth: June 28, 1940

Topics

HealthQualityPeopleCareFeel

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

Joe R. Lansdale

WorkI CanPersonSeriousLikeToo

That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

Andra Day

QueenControlSongLovedBluesJazz

I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.

Meghan Daum

GoodHealthBusyMental HealthRead

There are only a handful of politicians who are truly great on Twitter - the rest rely on their account to release press releases.

Meghan McCain

GreatRestPoliticiansReleasePress

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Robert Kiyosaki

LosingPeopleAfraidWhoLosers

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Jeff Greenfield

LifeFatherChildThinkPowerful

American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.

Steve Prefontaine

LiveWorldRestAmericanRulesOwn

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

Tom Waits

GoodBaseballPeopleStandYouSee

I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in their life.

Matt Bellamy

LifeReflectionThinkCreateGoing

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

Donald Rumsfeld

OffPressRecord

When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.

Anne Waldman

WorkWomenPoetryMeCollaboration

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

William J. H. Boetcker

CharacterCourageMenIndependence

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