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Elinor Ostrom Quotes

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Elinor Ostrom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1933 - June 12, 2012

Topics

People Washington Real Involvement

One thing we see a lot is this - the idea kids have now that they don't have to go to college. They don't have to get a real job. They feel they can become 'Internet famous' by taking selfies. They think they can become a star through social media. We see that a lot. You can succeed. But it takes time and persistence.

Max Joseph

Time Persistence Job Social Media

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

Michael Bloomberg

Myself Stubborn More Would Word Use

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

Travis Bradberry

Leadership Organization Reach You

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

Michael Morpurgo

Positive Children Moment Sleep World

I think, in Washington, getting things for the great people of Texas done is an important job.

Michael McCaul

Great Job People Texas Think Done

I don't eat anything before, but I can still go kill it at the gym and be in and out in 45 minutes or an hour, even doing workouts in the sauna to get the blood and sweat flowing.

Dolph Ziggler

Doing Gym I Can Sweat Go Blood

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a strong advocate for diversity across all dimensions.

Brad Feld

Diversity Me Strong Advocate Knows

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Bob Marley

Year Prevail Take Righteousness Must

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

Anthony Weiner

Mistake View America Embrace Way Us

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?'

Norbert Leo Butz

Hate Feet Talking Table Person Play

Certainly, when I left New Zealand, there was no career there as a comedian. I was doing more live gigs than anyone, and I was maybe doing three a week. Even then, it would often be the same people in the audience, going, 'I saw you on Tuesday, mate!'

Rhys Darby

Live People Doing Week You Career

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Feel You Self-Worth Become Without