Edmund Phelps Quotes

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

Edmund Phelps

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InnovationSpaceDesireOthersOwn

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

Max Winkler

InfluenceThinkAnxietyYouMovies

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

John Lothrop Motley

StrengthConfidenceWealthBrings

In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn't just think about the device and all the pieces separately. Bravo.

Steve Ballmer

MusicThinkYouEarlyAppleFirst

I'm so glad I didn't go into the big-music industry until I was 19 or 20.

Sigrid

GoIndustryGladUntil

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Tom Petty

LifeGoodAttitudeRichThinkYou

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Robert Benchley

ChildrenCuriositySmallHouseOld

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeCommunityMirrorReflection

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

Mary Hart

StarsTodayControlKnowMoreOver

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

Don Lemon

ForgivenessChanceAmericaRedemption

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Diane von Furstenberg

LifeMotherGodMeBornNothing

I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.

Brian Greene

RelationshipTruthTimeMemoryThink

I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

Bob Wise

BelieveYouLooksGoTerrorismSee

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