Increasing Quotes - page 3

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. (Eugen Herrigel)
Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life. View quote
Helen Fisher
Philosophers might care to ask themselves ... how often they are accomplices in increasing the audience for a second-rate article simply because their introductory course needs a simple-minded version of a bad idea that even freshmen can refute. Some of the most frequently reprinted articles in twentieth-century philosophy are famous precisely because nobody believes them; everybody can see what's wrong with them. ... The confirmation of this claim is left as an exercise for the reader. Among the memes that structure the infosphere and hence affect the transmission of other memes are the laws of libel. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population. View quote
Daniel Quinn
There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected? View quote
Janet Tashjian
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat? View quote
Yehuda Berg
I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today. View quote
William Weld
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. View quote
William Graham Sumner
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims. View quote
Frank Chodorov
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. (Allen Weinstein)
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. View quote
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. View quote
Anna Lindh
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. View quote
Bill Gross
As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred. View quote
Bram Fischer
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them. View quote
Buffalo Bill
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. View quote
Burton Richter
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. View quote
Charles M. Vest
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. (Chen-Ning Yang)
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. View quote
Cleveland Abbe
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult. View quote
Clyde Edgerton
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question. View quote
David Korten
I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it. View quote
Derek Jacobi