37 Downward Quotes for You to Enjoy

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. Stephen Covey

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. Charles Stanley

Failure Confidence People Fear Opportunities Cause Lost Thinking Our Indefinitely Spiral Rather Risk Results Talented Talented People Known Erosion Than Begins Stagnation Procrastinate Creates Who Actions Downward

Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country. George Packer

Pressure Country Spending Relentless Rural Rural Areas Small Both Area Prices Consumer Small Towns Towns Period Employment Wage Wages Came Dominate Decades Walmart Middle Stagnation Across Explosive Company Downward Growth Applying

I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else. Trent Reznor

Music God You Yourself People Thought Think Suicide Else Everything Everything Else Hating Some Spiral Disturbing About More Know Least Issues Were Than Tupac Themes Deeper Deeper Level Downward Level

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. Alan K. Simpson

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women Introduced Tend Cleanliness Excluded Come She Courtesy Women Are Where Order Places Sobriety Barbarism Moment Downward Her

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God. Henri Nouwen

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. Heather Mills

News Culture Women Spiral About Divorces Instead Obsessed Abuse Global Global Warming Celebrity Celebrity Culture Going Being Children Warming Why Downward

I was working as a volunteer in a village, 25 km. from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in 2012 when India Against Corruption movement started. I had realized that change needs to come from top downward, so I decided to join the movement as a volunteer and started policy research for the same. Atishi

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. Barbara Ehrenreich

Class Poverty Think Chronic About Both Long-Term Category Likes Mobility America Same Middle Middle Class Downward Things

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock. Ben Horowitz

Today You Guidance Pressure Tremendous Earnings Fraught Volatile Price Put Miss Peril Becomes Sellers Stock Very Going Short Public Many Many Levels Downward Levels

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing. Beth Moore

Face Young Defeat Despair Spiral Pretty Only Foolish Had Adulthood Likely Also Forced Doing End Done Upside Capable Realization Stark Downward Things Early

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth. Edward Burnett Tylor

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. Florence Kelley

Struggle Overcome Pressure Own Difficulty Other Additional Rates Maintain Wages Forever Any Hanging Just Workers Bodies Body Means Reasonable Skirts Downward Level Fatal Below

When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices. Greg Ip

People Result Pressure Down Saving Drawing Rates More Could Prices Put Consumption Retire Drops Sharply Years Stock Than Stop Upward Interest Interest Rates Acquired Much Income Assets Downward Start

A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward. Henry Paulson

Country Corporate Steadily Percent Rate Percentage Rates More Point Study Economists Attracts Another Surprising Than Tax Estimated Tax Rate Tax Rates Capital Average Then Lower Downward Treasury

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation. James Hillman

Generation Men Important Look Very Next Next Generation Downward

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. Jim Hightower

Politics You Took Entered Only Could Take Journalism Turn Downward

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward. John Hull

Tree Our High Rate Direction Very Depends Moves Upward Which Short-Term Interest Low Average Downward Actually Level

In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path. John Tavener

Love Path Meditation Late Though See Mahler Through Came Wagner His Beethoven Left Them Then Should Element Downward

When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a short-term benefit, but may not be beneficial for the future. Li Keqiang

Future Relax Pressure Increase Beneficial Benefit Deficits Adjust Economic Economic Policy Policy May Short-Term Might Choice Monetary Monetary Policy Downward Growth

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