Top 100 Quotes About Phelps

#1. In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Edmund Phelps

#2. Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.

Norm Phelps

#3. Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.

Edmund Phelps

#4. My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.

Michael Phelps

#5. When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

Michael Phelps

#6. A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps

#7. My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Michael Phelps

#8. There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

Edmund Phelps

#9. Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

William Lyon Phelps

#10. I'm so sick of the water.

Michael Phelps

#11. Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Michael Phelps

#12. In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

William Lyon Phelps

#13. A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.

Edmund Phelps

#14. There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

Michael Phelps

#15. I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Michael Phelps

#16. There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Edmund Phelps

#17. Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys and the art department guys, how they work and seeing their visions is really interesting. I don't think those guys get the recognition they deserve.

James Phelps

#18. Wishing you the best, and praying for your success.

Diana Mankin Phelps

#19. Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

William Lyon Phelps

#20. If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

Peter Boettke

#21. There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

William Lyon Phelps

#22. Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

Michael Phelps

#23. Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#24. Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.

Arnold Kling

#25. Repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy lifestyle you've been living. And for the most part, fags cannot repent because they're proud of their sin.

Fred Phelps

#26. To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

William Lyon Phelps

#27. It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

Edmund Phelps

#28. I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the U.S.A. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress ... It's too late to pray for the U.S.A.

Fred Phelps

#29. Normalcy...what a strange word. Its definition can be changed so completely by one phone call...

Diana Mankin Phelps

#30. When you use your imagination anything can happen.

Michael Phelps

#31. 'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

Edmund Phelps

#32. Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.

Michael Phelps

#33. I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

Michael Phelps

#34. TABLE 2.1 The Spectrum of Manic Symptoms

Jim Phelps

#35. I want to change the sport of swimming. I want people to talk about it, think about it, and look forward to seeing it. I want them to want to jump in and do it. That's my goal." After

Michael Phelps

#36. I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Michael Phelps

#37. As the years pass by, we'll glance at faded photographs recalling memories shared with special friends and family, never wanting it to end. Memories are the only thing left within the end." Judy

M. William Phelps

#38. I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can ... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ... whichever song really gets me going that night

Michael Phelps

#39. If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.

Edmund Phelps

#40. I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Edmund Phelps

#41. My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

Edmund Phelps

#42. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Austin Phelps

#43. You can't put a limit anything.

Michael Phelps

#44. I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.

Michael Phelps

#45. A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

Edmund Phelps

#46. What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs? I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.

Mark Haskell Smith

#47. If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

Edmund Phelps

#48. Flourishing is the heart of prospering - engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.

Edmund S. Phelps

#49. I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

Michael Phelps

#50. Well China, you got us. Phelps was doping - and he still beat you. He smoked the sticky-icky, and then he smoked your ass!

Stephen Colbert

#51. It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#52. The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

William Lyon Phelps

#53. I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

Lindsey Vonn

#54. The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Edmund Phelps

#55. The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Digger Phelps

#56. A literary woman's best critic is her husband ...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#57. An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

Edmund Phelps

#58. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go ... anywhere.

Michael Phelps

#59. Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

Edmund Phelps

#60. In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

Edmund Phelps

#61. If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps

#62. The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

William Lyon Phelps

#63. At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

William Lyon Phelps

#64. We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.

Austin Phelps

#65. Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.

Fred Phelps

#66. The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Edmund Phelps

#67. We're all a little tired.

Michael Phelps

#68. Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?

Conan O'Brien

#69. God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

Fred Phelps

#70. If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

Fred Phelps

#71. The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#72. To work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#73. Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.

Michael Phelps

#74. A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

Edmund Phelps

#75. How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

William Lyon Phelps

#76. Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

Edmund Phelps

#77. It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner ... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#78. Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?

Michael Phelps

#79. Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

William Lyon Phelps

#80. Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally

Michael Phelps

#81. Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

Austin Phelps

#82. In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

William Lyon Phelps

#83. It's never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders.

Jaycie Phelps

#84. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work ... THERE ARE NO LIMITS.

Michael Phelps

#85. If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.

Michael Phelps

#86. The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.

Edmund Phelps

#87. One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

William Lyon Phelps

#88. In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

Edmund Phelps

#89. The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

Edmund Phelps

#90. No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

Edmund Phelps

#91. I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.

Michael Phelps

#92. I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.

Michael Phelps

#93. The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

William Lyon Phelps

#94. PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

William Lyon Phelps

#95. When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

Edmund Phelps

#96. When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Michael Phelps

#97. Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Edmund Phelps

#98. In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

Edmund Phelps

#99. The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

Michael Phelps

#100. There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

Fred Phelps

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