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Edmund Phelps Quotes

When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut.

Edmund Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 26, 1933

Topics

Work Fear Free Security Discouraged

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

Jim Lehrer

Journalist

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

John Donne

Beginning Humiliation Sanctification

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

Andrew Sean Greer

Me Think Up Suburbs Shaped Much

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

Meles Zenawi

Time Thinking Over Course Everybody

It's the quality of your relationships that matters.

Robert J. Waldinger

Quality Relationships Matters Your

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

Shimon Peres

Time Forest Place Young First Time

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

Torrie Wilson

Day Eating Apple Started Off Maybe

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

Tom Glazer

Hope Myself Child Me Drive Never

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

Rowan Atkinson

Character Always Timeless Remembered

Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

Donald McCaig

Research Energy Map Historical

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Brian Eno

Good Art Yourself People Feel Good

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wisdom Start Look Back Never Expand