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I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.
I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.
As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.
From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.
I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
When I became an actor, I decided I had enough time, talent, and resources to support people who are in dire need of assistance.
Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.
I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.
Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.
The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.
Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.
If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
When you do have really tapped out resources that cover so many investigations, it can help you move through and discard some faster.
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.
Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.