Edmund Phelps Quotes

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

Edmund Phelps

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There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.

John David Washington

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I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

John Lithgow

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The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.

Robert Mundell

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Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Robert Greene

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I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

Anita Brookner

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I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

Angela Bassett

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I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

John Perry Barlow

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Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

Stephen Hough

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I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

Sonoya Mizuno

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So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Ruth Gordon

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I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing.

Julia Holter

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Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don't last long. Other than that, lots of people in Hollywood tend to be narcissistic, and it's hard to have a relationship with someone like that.

Julia Stiles

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