Resources Quotes - Page 7

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

A pupil is a great resource.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

People are my greatest resource.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?