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Edmund Phelps Quotes

Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

Edmund Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Blue Outside Economy Out Economic

I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.

Robert Lopez

Work Fear I Am Song Flaws Play

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm

Sacrifice I Am Team Champion Because

My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Mother Beautiful Mom Clothes Never

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

Michaela Coel

Life Car Black My Life Skin Colour

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

Michael Jordan

Fight You Sometimes Need Head Get

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

Louise Mensch

Support Amazing Me Help My Own Hard

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

Jordan Peele

Age You Early Down Go Know

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

Dick Cavett

Great Art Writing Insult Wonderful

There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

Cherie Lunghi

Confidence Age Experience Yourself

My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.

Chris Stapleton

Love Car Music Singer Hold Loud

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

Brian d'Arcy James

Me Growing Up Doing Television I Can

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

Bobby Rahal

Racing Winner You Dice Roll Willing