Forcing humans to sit still all day is foolish. Recess is sacred—for children and adults alike! — Sahil Bloom
It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch. — Karlie Kloss
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. — Nigel Lawson
It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators. — Russell L. Ackoff
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation. — Seneca
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us. — Neal Shusterman
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. — Fulton J. Sheen
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. — Ovid
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. — Thomas Jefferson
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world. — Benton MacKaye
Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. — Marcus Aurelius
Short Recess Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. — Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. — Harry S Truman
In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes. — Koos Bekker
In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I’m not bullish on any one asset class, I’m bullish on the future. — Raoul Pal
Investing, like economics, is more art than science. And that means it can get a little messy. — Howard S. Marks
Market rewards you as per your perception. — Vijay Kedia
I will cut taxes to reward hard work and boost business-led growth and investment. — Liz Truss
A recession is like a Black Friday Sale for investors. — Jaspreet Singh
Vast numbers of people are working longer, in jobs they rightly fear will soon be gone. — Jeff Booth
School Recess Quotes
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school. — James Sinegal
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math. — Denise Juneau
I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools. — Samuel Alito
Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE. — Richard Simmons
Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since. — Jim Rogers
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play. — Steve Nash
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. — Alan Shepard
In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out. — Russell Wilson
We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies. — John Conyers
The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. — James Wolcott
Recession Quotes
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul — Abdul-Qadir Gilani
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented. — Mas Oyama
Market crashes and recessions create more millionaires than any other time. The catch: You have to be prepared AND financially educated. — Jaspreet Singh
Small to medium sized enterprises make up over 60% of employment in the UK. It wouldn’t be crazy to imagine half shutting down as they’re bankrupted by energy costs. People need to get serious of what a true economic collapse would look like. It ain’t like a simple recession. — Philip Pilkington
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming. — Michael Saylor
Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive. — Gregor Mendel
The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment and below-target inflation and calling for highly accommodative monetary policies. — Jerome Powell
Longer and deeper recessions tend to leave behind damage to people’s careers. And that weighs on the economy going forward. — Jerome Powell
The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. — Jerome Powell
Economic Recession Quotes
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. — Friedrich August von Hayek
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. — Robert Reich
Democracy thus becomes a mass delusion of people attempting to override the rules of economics by voting themselves a free lunch and being manipulated into violent tantrums against scapegoats whenever the bill for the free lunch arrives via inflation and economic recessions. — Saifedean Ammous
Credit is like a drug. Initially, it feels great as it stimulates economic activity, but eventually, you become addicted and require more and more to achieve the same effect. — Russell Napier
Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world. — Liz Truss
Credit is the oil in the engine of economic growth, but too much oil can cause the engine to seize. — Russell Napier
Handling covid, we made a lot of big mistakes, and it led to tens of trillions of dollars of economic damage and millions of lives lost. Much of that was preventable. — Sam Bankman-Fried
I believe that the economics which deal with forecasting business trends may be considered to be about as far along as was the science of chemistry during the days of alchemy in the Middle Ages. — Philip Arthur Fisher
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. — Bo Bennett
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. — Robert Foster Bennett
Great Recession Quotes
The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job. — Michael Symon
Many of the great financial disasters we’ve seen have been failures to foresee and manage risk. — Howard S. Marks
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development. — Frederick Jackson Turner
The biggest problem in correcting errors in the market is that stocks look best when they are at the peak and not so great when they are at the bottom. — Thomas Phelps
There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash. — Irving Fisher
While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. — Mark Cuban
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death. — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half. — Mark Zandi
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent. — Bernie Sanders
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. — Daniel Hannan
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic. — Gregor Mendel
Technology is deflationary, we are entering into an age of deflation unlike any the world has ever seen. — Jeff Booth
More money has probably been lost by investors holding a stock they really did not want until they could ‘at least come out even’ than from any other single reason. — Philip Arthur Fisher
As prime minister, I will pursue three early priorities. Firstly, I will get Britain working again. I have a bold plan to grow the economy through tax cuts and reform. — Liz Truss
Financial history is the most important thing to study for anyone seeking to avoid the mistakes of the past. — Russell Napier
Your portfolio, leveraged or not, must be constructed in such a way that not only will it survive the bad days but thrive in a market meltdown. — Naved Abdali
A large company’s need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management. — Philip Arthur Fisher
In a world of quantitative easing, the old adage of ‘Don’t fight the Fed’ needs to be rewritten as ‘Don’t trust the Fed.’ — Russell Napier
It took $185 trillion of debt to produce about $46 trillion of GDP growth over the last twenty years. — Jeff Booth
I am confident that together we can ride out the storm. We can rebuild our economy, and we can become the modern brilliant Britain that I know we can be. — Liz Truss
Don’t buy a stock just because it has had a big decline from its high and is therefore ‘cheap’. A stock can be cheap and yet not be attractive. — Thomas Phelps
If I think there is something interesting or useful to say about the market that others are not saying, I will sit down at the keyboard again. — Bill Miller
Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan. — Vijay Kedia
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. — William Penn
Its completely possible that the present inflation is largely stuck now because of wage-price dynamics, especially in services, and will only come down in a recession. — Philip Pilkington
Most investors are too eager to sell a good position with a small profit rather than hold on for a larger gain. — Thomas Phelps
Bitcoin is insurance against financial catastrophe, as we see in Lebanon or in Afghanistan and many of these other countries. — Bill Miller
So, what’s happening with volatility is you’re getting some probability of a mistake, of recession, priced in, and that’s something that you’re gonna have to live with for a while. — Bill Miller
In markets, stupid action does not have equal but severe opposite reaction. — Vijay Kedia
Do not assume that what investors call momentum… will continue unless you can make a sound case that it will. — Edward O. Thorp
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness. — Mario Vargas Llosa
To bad times, a good face. — Mexican Proverbs
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