Spurs Quotes - Page 11

• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  Ken Blackwell

  Government, Order, Growth

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• My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Years, Practice

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• Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

  Robert Reich

  Philosophy, Political, Growth

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• The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

  Neil Peart

  Cities, Gold, Exploration

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• The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

  B. C. Forbes

  Real, Men, Years

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• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Drug, Competition

  "Exporting I.P". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.

  Bernard Baruch

  Strong, Money, New York

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• Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

  Alan Greenspan

  Home, House, Immigration

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• When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Loyalty, Encouragement, Gratitude

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• Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Play, Acting

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• The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.

  Melinda Gates

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

  Pablo Neruda

  Flower, Vases, Plates

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• Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Winter, Land

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• Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

  Dante Alighieri

  Self, Ignorant, Blind

  "The Divine Comedy".

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• Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Quality

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  B. C. Forbes

  Motivational, Adversity, Challenges

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• Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Champion, Humanity

  "Dream on" by Richard Branson, www.virgin.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Continue to spur a running horse.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Running, Horse

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.128, Bottom of the Hill

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• Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Beautiful, Gun, Player

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• When you make a decision you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

  Ken Jennings

  Decision, Google, Brain

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

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• In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

  Jeff Goodell

  Jobs, Reality, Oil

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• God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

  Hannibal

  Men, Victory, Carthage

  "The War with Hannibal". Book by Titus Livius, Book XXI, 1965.

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• Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Men, Goal

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