“ There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ”
- Robert Half- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
- 587
“ Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 679
“ What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. ”
- Thomas Walsingham- Copy
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“ Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ”
- Oswald Chambers- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. ”
- Zig Ziglar- Copy
- 2.6K
“ One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. ”
- Kevin Kelly- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? — ah! never — never. ”
- George Gordon Byron- Copy
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“ The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there. ”
- Henry Vaughan- Copy
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“ The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man. ”
- Bernard Mandeville- Copy
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“ Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish — even I if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me… ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ To live means to experience — through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested. ”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi- Copy
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“ Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. ”
- Frederick W. Faber- Copy
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“ Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth. ”
- George Reisman- Copy
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