Top 16 Absorptive Quotes
#2. The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.
Bill Gates
#3. Belief is not weakness. Faith is the greatest strength we can have.
Kiersten White
#4. Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.
Edward Burtynsky
#5. Then again, it didn't take me long in the world of corporate law to realize that truth is an afterthought in court. In fact, truth is an afterthought in most trials. But there were six million people who were lied to, during World War II, and somebody owes them the truth.
Jodi Picoult
#6. Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
Muhammad Yunus
#7. You've reached your 60th birthday, Bill
To the year, the day, the hour
You've been a lifelong country boy
Along with Lily, your flower
And Robin ... that's the name of a bird
And Dawn ... that says it all
John Walter Bratton
#9. I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#10. One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
Michelle Bachelet
#11. If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
Nadine Gordimer
#12. To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell
#13. Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
-Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#14. Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.
Dominick Cruz
#15. There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
Marguerite Duras
#16. When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.
Mark Strand
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