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Related Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more ration... HERBERT SIMON Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behav... HERBERT A. SIMON Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more ration... HERBERT SIMON children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they se... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER When people are out having a good time, they don't want to spend it learning how to avoid taking blu... JAMES NEAL Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage ZIG ZIGLAR Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. ZIG ZIGLAR The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true... NEIL CAVUTO Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow le... JULIE B. BECK They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 19... EVANDER HOLYFIELD In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and l... FRANZ KAFKA Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Androi... MARC ANDREESSEN People spend more time at work and have more friendships and interactions there than they would have... HENRY SAFFER Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend... ISAAC ASIMOV We're trying our level best because the mayor believes in the work the shelters are doing to transit... FRED SAINZ If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out... JACK WELCH Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, an... ANNE M. MULCAHY There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been pa... ED ASNER I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ... FRANCIS CHAN People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don'... PENELOPE WILTON They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas. DENNIS RODMAN There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days whe... JOHN MILIUS This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the field... SUNDAY ADELAJA This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the field... SUNDAY ADELAJA Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire live... JOHN MELLENCAMP They can spend more time on every property. Secondly, they will be more versed and knowledgeable abo... ED HUGHES The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, ... AL LEWIS Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge a... MICHELLE OBAMA Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER If they did donate and lied on the forms, they were more than likely first-time donors. IANTHE EXALL And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don&... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're makin... CHUBBY CHECKER It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning ... PATRICIA FRIPP Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales ... ERIN MORGENSTERN Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It&... ALAN CUMMING Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of ... BROOKE ELLIOTT I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state -... AL JARREAU You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team,... BRYAN ROBSON I believe love is the most misunderstood concept in the world. You can buy your wife the most expens... PATIENCE JOHNSON I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic... AGNETHA FALTSKOG I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't... BILL ENGVALL It is unbelievable. People will spend more time planning their vacation than researching the person ... NOEL MAYE As people spend more time in their cars, they need to be more cautious about what kinds of chemicals... CHARLES GRIFFITH People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself i... FREDDIE HIGHMORE They'll notice more energy, less stress, more vigor and when they go for their checkup, they will pr... DR. HARVEY SIMON They'll notice more energy less stress, more vigor and when they go for their checkup, they will pro... DR. HARVEY SIMON Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the l... ALAN FURST They spend time. That’s just it. They spend time traveling. The time weighs heavily on them becaus... IAIN M. BANKS They're much harder to detect. They can be moved more readily, and are more portable of course, and ... JOHN MCLAUGHLIN When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spen... RIC FLAIR It's a much more attractive market than the U.S. -- the growth of Internet commerce is less mature a... JEFF BOYD I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20. And they're not just doing some goofy sequel,... CARRIE FISHER We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dietin... ALICE WATERS When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and ... ROBERT SMITH In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has ... CAROLINE KENNEDY I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they'... JEFF CARLSON The political left and right spend more time arguing over who is right and wrong than they do fixing... TRAVIS J HEDRICK People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation,... DAVID CHASE Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been... JOHN HICKENLOOPER Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. H. L. MENCKEN Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than t... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They des... LOU DOILLON There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they hav... JOSH BILLINGS Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened,
But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they s... BAYARD RUSKIN But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I neve... FISHER STEVENS I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have ... DAN DECARLO I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last te... TEDDY THOMPSON The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and bra... HAMPTON SIDES The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bail... ITALO CALVINO I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one ... PATTI SMITH Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all th... EDWARD EVERETT HALE Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds --- all they have had, all ... EDWARD EVERETT HALE I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they... DAVID MORSE When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they&... HOWARD ZINN They want to spend more time with their parents. ALVIN POUSSAINT I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me. ESTHER RANTZEN It's been a couple weeks since they ran with us and we're very happy with how they did. It made a wo... CRAIG HOFFMAN When they came out after that first delay, they wanted it more. And (after) the second delay they wa... BRENT STROH Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do prep... CARLOS WALLACE People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and mor... SIMEON STRUNSKY People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and mor... SIMEON STRUNSKY Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowl... LA MONTE YOUNG Coach has been talking about it. We expected Winthrop to press more than they did. When they did, th... JACK LEASURE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES They have really done a fantastic job to pick up more and do more with less. They are doing the best... GREGG ROBINSON I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and Go... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON People carry the knowledge, expertise, talents, skills and abilities they have, and when they migrat... SOTONYE ANGA Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can ca... BILLY GRAHAM Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue... HANNA ROSIN I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than peopl... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and s... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all ... EDWARD EVERETT HALE People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to... MICHAEL ENDE If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People... MARC ANDREESSEN What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public.... DAVID R. BROWER You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certi... JAN BREWER In a U.S. election year, they err on the side of doing less rather than more. PETER CHANDLER Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind. JOHN STEINBECK The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there'... SETH GODIN
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Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my kno... HERBERT A. SIMON Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, ... HERBERT A. SIMON The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It... HERBERT A. SIMON My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving proce... HERBERT A. SIMON Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe. HERBERT A. SIMON To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resour... HERBERT A. SIMON In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares comm... HERBERT A. SIMON Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to... HERBERT A. SIMON The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, direct... HERBERT A. SIMON Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behav... HERBERT A. SIMON I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to... HERBERT A. SIMON I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that th... HERBERT A. SIMON Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. HERBERT A. SIMON Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior ... HERBERT A. SIMON The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. HERBERT A. SIMON What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. HERBERT A. 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HERBERT SIMON The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothi... HERBERT SIMON What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a w... HERBERT SIMON Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more ration... HERBERT SIMON Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ... HERBERT SIMON What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a w... HERBERT SIMON No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. HERBERT SIMON Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but ... HERBERT SIMON [By 1985], machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do. HERBERT SIMON The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they o... 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SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles. SAM SIMON I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We... SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl.... SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang... SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun... SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi... SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use. SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope... SIMON SINEK I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. SIMON SINEK A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. SIMON SINEK Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. SIMON SINEK A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and r... SIMON SINEK People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... SIMON COWELL There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak. SIMON SINEK Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born s... SIMON SINEK We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first p... SIMON SINEK Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for bette... SIMON SINEK Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt... SIMON HOGGART Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young. SIMON RATTLE One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arriv... SIMON HOGGART He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai... SIMON CALLOW Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t... SIMON MAINWARING Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty. SIMON SINEK I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand. SIMON REUBEN I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read... MARGE SIMON Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chick... SIMON HOGGART I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past ... SIMON HOGGART The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world... SIMON MAINWARING Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w... SIMON COWELL What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with... ALAN SIMON If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest. ALAN SIMON We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money. ALAN SIMON It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years. ALAN SIMON Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergo... SIMON MAINWARING If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t... SIMON RATTLE