Elasticity Quotes

• We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Cash Flow, Long

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• A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.

  John L. Casti

  Hands, Band, Analogies

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

  Bill Veeck

  Tests, Break

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• Patience is moral elasticity.

  Austin O'Malley

  Patience, Moral

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• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

  Walter Scott

  Adversity, Presence Of Mind, Tempest

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics

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• I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Trying, Tests

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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• Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Air, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.161, Penguin

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• The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Boys, Noise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Character, Adversity

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• The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

  Julia Alvarez

  Reading, Writing, Compassion

  Source: ncac.org

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• I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spring, Adversity, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.199

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• In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

  Robert Mondavi

  Country, Rigidity, Dictatorship

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• He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

  Nick Faldo

  Sports, Golf, Long

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• ...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Grief, Mind, Chance

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• Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous flow, the elasticity of the gas pushing its particles into space will continuously push the cask itself. The result will a continuous change in the motion of the cask. Given a sufficient number of taps (say, six), we would be able to regulate the outflow of the gas as we liked and the cask (or sphere) would describe any curved line in accordance with any law of velocities.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Law, Numbers, Space

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• I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Liberty, Littles, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Years, Giving, Perspective

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Strong, Men, Emotional

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Words Of Wisdom, Wish, Energy

  James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.564, Courier Corporation

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Greatness, Constitution

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1973). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

  Susan Cain

  Personality, Brain, Important

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• Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Morning, Jealous, Writing

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