Quotes of: Rand Keyword

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Julia Cameron

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.

Julia Cameron

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

Regina Doman

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Elizabeth Moon

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Iain Banks

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Lauren DeStefano

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Don Tapscott

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Jeremy Rifkin

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

Sanford I. Weill

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Thomas Sowell

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

Joseph Stiglitz

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Elinor Ostrom

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

Emily Oster

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

Emily Oster

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

Frank Knight

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

Friedrich List

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

George Ayittey

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

George Ayittey

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

George Ayittey

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

George Ayittey

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Clayton M. Christensen