Greg Ip Quotes

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

Greg Ip

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TimeRisksGrowNeedOverTake

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

Joan Crawford

SurviveStrongYouWillDestroyed

There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

Matthew McConaughey

ChampionThinkingYouKnowing

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

GovernmentChildAbuseWelfareAbout

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

Amy Tan

AgeTruthAloneLonelinessPeople

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

WritingFeelPersonalMoreInside

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

Steven Pinker

FocusEnergyLong-TermRatherThan

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

Roman Jakobson

SoundBeginUsEvenAcousticMany

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Milan Kundera

TruthMeanPreachDiscoverMeans

I don't understand longer shorts. I don't think they look good on anyone.

Juergen Teller

GoodThinkLookUnderstandShorts

Each time I invent something and have it manufactured, it's so incredibly exciting that I can't imagine ever wanting to stop. Envisioning new products is easy for me. I just don't have enough time in the day to design them all.

Joy Mangano

TimeDayMeDesignEnoughEasy

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau

SuccessLuckBelieveChanceYouHow

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Pierre de Coubertin

PeopleFeelCountryPersonalNeed

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