Dale T. Mortensen Quotes

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

Dale T. Mortensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 2, 1939 - January 9, 2014

Topics

ScienceEconomicsImportantStrange

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

Andrew Weil

DieYouRunWayHumanFirst

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

Andy Taylor

MusicGreatPeopleInternetFind

Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.

John T. Chambers

TechnologyCompeteAgainstUsGoing

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

John Ratzenberger

GoodWordsPeopleWhyReasonOver

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

Sirio Maccioni

ShipGoMoreCubaCruiseGlamorous

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Ruth Rendell

WomenThinkPointUpMustI Think

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

Michael Kiwanuka

LoveGoodMusicSoulMeSinging

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

KindnessHeartCompassionWiseMind

I grew up with a sister and a younger brother in a house where every evening was spent performing a dance routine in front of our parents with my sister.

Disha Patani

DanceBrotherParentsSisterEvening

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

PersonalPoorMy OwnOwnGainWould

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

Phil Everly

InnovationBeginningTryingNewRock

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

FamilyFutureLivePastMemoryMe

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