Gustave Speth Quotes

#1. It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

Dominick Cruz

#3. Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

James Gustave Speth

#4. That man who had prayed for the fasces, when he attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and over: "When will this year be over!

Seneca.

#5. I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

Angela Lansbury

#6. The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

James Gustave Speth

#7. The economy is now consuming the planet's available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the environment on a scale that greatly affects the major biogeophysical cycles of the planet.

James Gustave Speth

#8. The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

Warren Buffett

#9. To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#10. Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

Billy Crudup

#11. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.

Alan Paton

#12. And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell;

John Milton

#13. The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

B.F. Skinner

#14. The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Simon Schama

#15. The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

H.R. Giger

#16. I don't care about people who don't care about me. If people are negative or mean, then that's their issue. Screw them.

Paris Hilton

#17. If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.

James Gustave Speth

#18. Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

James Gustave Speth

#19. Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

James Gustave Speth