Relative Quotes

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times. Carrie Lam
Poverty Relative Definition Times Move Acknowledge Should
I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced. Cesar Romero
Danced Relative Mine Laughing About Had Concerned Became How Male Often Keep
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant. Charles Jencks
Rare Become Relative Rule Seems Absolutes Thus Dominant Times Affluence Prized Models Thin
I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive. Charles M. Schwab
Work Today Confidence Matter Will Men Before Relative Everything Ranks Willing Vital Only Civilization Mention Factor Never Underlying Because Survive May Worked Who Cooperation Among Need
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else. Clayton M. Christensen
Else Innovations Relative Something Something Else Only Process Event Disruption Disruptive
Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents. Clayton M. Christensen
Service Innovation Better Relative Markets Mainstream Industry Makes Existing Targeted Than Sustaining Them Succeeded Customers Taxi Lives Serving
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully. Daniel Radcliffe
Experience Others Relative Had Sort Limited None Passed Thankfully Quite Fortunately Who Away
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last. David Bowie
Family Father Parents Believe Every Relative Able About Never Longer Openly Talk Read Always Heard Question Different Anything Story Regretted Many Different Story Things Last
Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying. David D. Burns
Truth Saying People Problem Try Defensive Relative Solve Finding Hurting Rather Most Dealing Surprisingly Than Person Get Anxious Depressed Poorly Who
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. Derek Bok
Education Higher Education Increases Relative Dramatically System Embrace Cost Higher Maintaining Countries Mass Elite Universities
The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011. Dexter Filkins
Country Calm President Late President Bush Relative Soldiers Kind Pretty Combat Baghdad Until Forces Surge Left End American Ordered Bush Worked Much Held Descended Last
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. Don Miguel Ruiz
Truth Knowledge Memory Consider Our Relative Distorted Only Never Never Stop Always Going Stop Stored Beliefs
I still have drive, but everything is relative. Don Rickles
Drive Relative Everything Still
That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons. Don Yaeger
Success Time Great World Lose National Relative Member Percent More Potential Fails Hall Oddity Fame Than Hitter Success Is Games Who Many Teams Plate Baseball World Championship Seasons Championship
I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it. Donald Hall
Time Culture Solitude School Year Relative New Always New Hampshire Hampshire Up Grew Loved Suburbs Preferred Landscape Connecticut
Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one. Donella Meadows
Good Few Own Energy Our Relative Earth Scale Puny Impact Most Powers Making Material Than Bigger Sensitive Places Much Planet Planetary Humankind Flows
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. Douglas Feith
War World Thought Reading Relative Kid About Had Lot Done Chamberlain Two World War World War Two
I love going to horror movies - especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater. Drew Goddard
Love You Safety Think Relative Touch Horror Horror Movies Primal Instincts Sort Get Going Theater Movies Fun
We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe and Japan. Edward Conard
Decision Made Our Relative Risk-Taking Economy Been Very Japan Taxes Successful Lower Lower Taxes Europe
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. Edward Sapir
History Age Events Tribal Made Type Relative Statements Evidence Direct Personal Legends Personal Information Formal Natives Regarding Information Whether Formed Themselves Sequence Second
We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds. Elizabeth Esty
Every Positions Seconds Our Relative Approximate Locations Seeing Know Accurate Precise Just Eight Planes Radar
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact. Emile Durkheim
Single Others Relation Relative Immediately Distinguished Contact Environment Merely Most Attributed Subject Person Being Which Autonomy
I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more. Emily Oster
Time Family You Women Job Men Think Enough Else Relative Everything Once Everything Else Top Worse Kids Plus More Tend Feel Household Becomes Full Full-Time Even Even Worse Chores
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. Francis Crick
Made Own Changes Relative Reliable Mutation Composition Triplets Data My Own More Various Attempts Study Until Obtain Within Been Order Produced View Premature Bases Extensive
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. Fred Ward
Truth Old Old Friends Lying Relative Intimacy Out Telling Telling The Truth Between Underneath Dealing Friends Hit Truths Deeper Deeper Level Play Level
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. Friedrich August von Hayek
Best Problem Society Relative Resources Those Secure Members Rather Only Individuals Importance Know Known How Any Ends Use Whose
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