#gem

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability. ↗

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone

#been #best #declare #duly #duties

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#management #maybe #probability #risk #risk management

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#any #arrangements #controls #directs #energy

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#beautifully #because #done #eccentric #fabulous

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#conflicts #degraded #distribution #global #going

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#committee #doing #going #humanity #i

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#adequately #africa #blame #cannot #economy

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking. ↗

— Paula Zahn

#come #delighted #just #management #thinking

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#fall #gerry #hanging #i #just

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#different #engagement #every #i #i think