Joseph Tainter Quotes

#1. Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

Esther Hicks

#2. in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

Joseph A. Tainter

#3. CITIZENS, we bring good news! In your kitchens, in your offices, on your factory floors - wherever you hear this broadcast, turn up the volume! The first success we have to report is that our Grass into Meat Campaign is a complete

Adam Johnson

#4. I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

Max Blumenthal

#5. In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

#6. It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Dan Barber

#7. The suffering faces of depleted men and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help-they were beyond that-but for an explanation. Just something to subdue this confusion.

Markus Zusak

#8. My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#9. In a time when, as Woodson puts it, 'book sales trump the quality of ideas...

Joseph A. Tainter

#10. As profession recognizes profession, so, too, does vice.

Marcel Proust

#11. Tell the Truth. Make it Special.

Life's a Beach. And then you Drown.

Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.

Justin Allison

#12. I'm a doctor," she reminded him. "Nothing embarrasses me."
"Yeah? So if I call the hospital while you're making rounds, you won't be embarrassed when I have the operator page Dr. Smarty-pants?

Julie Garwood

#13. But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

#14. Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

Terry Teachout

#15. Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.

Joseph A. Tainter

#16. Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

Mason Cooley