William Lyon Phelps quote: "Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the b...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sen...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 A knowledge of the Bi...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief i...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations be...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to hi...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some s...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admir...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, bu...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, g...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisu...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Method...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not n...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The average Englishman does not see why a stranger should accost him with jocosity - many Englishmen...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is t...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual wo...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sen...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then o...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I cannot explain to another the joy and the happiness I get out of teaching. It is more than a profe...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate h...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yours...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every househo...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to hi...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

He is . . . like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help i...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most us...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or la...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spi...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear ...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasi...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as it...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions tha...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good ...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the incr...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domes...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, te...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against wh...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic bevera...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all to...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at w...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the me...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any ot...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Every hour of useful work is precious.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
BILL LYON

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
MARY LYON

I had two months of not doing anything except wonder how my arm was going to feel. But I'm back thro...
BRANDON LYON

I struggled a little bit, but I've been talking to 'MD' (pitching coach Mark Davis ) quite a bit the...
BRANDON LYON

It just seemed like I would give up a couple hits, then start falling behind hitters and I would try...
BRANDON LYON

I'd have liked to finish out the year stronger than I did, ... But there's always next year, and thi...
BRANDON LYON

We hit the ball tonight as hard as we've hit all year.
BILLY LYON

All four of these kids (outfield) can run a ball down and all four have good arms.
BILLY LYON

Sarah missed 15 games last year when she was hit in the face with a ball. With Gillis healthy, we ex...
BILLY LYON

She caught almost every pitch last year. We plan on giving her a break every now and then to let (Sa...
BILLY LYON

The varsity returns eight starters on defense and seven on offense.
BILLY LYON

Hopefully, this tough, competitive schedule will help us win the region. It will hurt our win-loss r...
BILLY LYON

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.
MARY LYON

It's 90 percent mental, and 10 percent physical. It's not hard to lie on the sled.
ROBBIE LYON

Right now, it's like there's a lot of duct tape holding it together. It works just well enough for p...
BARRETT LYON

From what I understood, he and a bunch of his friends hung out in chat rooms, and he was being hired...
BARRETT LYON

Those are the scary ones.
BARRETT LYON

We saw the extortion racket take off first, but now it is a mixture. You are seeing extortion; you a...
BARRETT LYON

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything
BILL LYON

People have no idea what they're getting into. It feels like the biggest run of adrenaline — somet...
ROBBIE LYON

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.
MARY LYON

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail t...
MARY LYON

I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the...
MATTHEW LYON

Most times he wouldn't do anything if the bull was not up to scratch. Or the public would be waiting...
BILL LYON

She's taking her shots from where she should be. She's much improved over last year.
BILL LYON

If at first don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
BILL LYON

You get as many G's (forces of gravity) as a fighter jet pilot.
ROBBIE LYON

At the old shop, it was at their house, so Grandma would make lunch, make dinner and serve that to c...
JOHN LYON

If I'll admit to adultery, I'll admit to everything.
HARRY LYON

Wow. That's about all I can say. I'm really surprised that it was 2 to 1 against, that was sort of a...
DAVID LYON

What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conf...
DAVID LYON

I honestly don't know what else to think, for the life of me.
DAVID LYON

We screened it a number of different ways and one of those screenings indicated the possibility of e...
DAVID LYON

in a great rush.
DAVID LYON

This will be a privileged cohort. They will get more attention and at least as good an education as ...
DAVID LYON

It improves your heart muscle, it lowers your risk of having a heart attack or stroke, and it improv...
MARY LYON

I've been shot twice in my life - both times over women.
HARRY LYON

If it hadn't been for that pressure, nothing would have been done.
JAMES LYON

This segment should appeal to all ages of listeners.
JAMES LYON

The concert is intended to raise scholarship funds for the School of Music.
JAMES LYON

I just try to take it day by day and live for every day and enjoy every day with my friends and fami...
MANDI LYON

Kidney cancer is one of the cancers that they don't have many treatment options for and everything i...
MANDI LYON

I have an eight month old baby I can't just lay down and give up, I have to keep going every day and...
MANDI LYON

I'm very overwhelmed, but very thankful for all the support.
MANDI LYON

I just, I never could recover, I kept feeling bad for a couple of months and then went through a cou...
MANDI LYON

It's nice to play at home. It's nice not having to wake up at 6:30 and drive to Albuquerque.
MICHAEL LYON

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We...
EDMUND PHELPS

I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing...
EDMUND PHELPS

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging outpu...
EDMUND PHELPS

Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid...
EDMUND PHELPS

The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ...
EDMUND PHELPS

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism...
EDMUND PHELPS

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next ...
EDMUND PHELPS

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work,...
EDMUND PHELPS

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up...
EDMUND PHELPS

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but ...
EDMUND PHELPS

Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the cl...
EDMUND PHELPS

In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a compara...
EDMUND PHELPS

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an ...
EDMUND PHELPS

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
EDMUND PHELPS

I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are ...
EDMUND PHELPS

At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are...
EDMUND PHELPS

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies ...
EDMUND PHELPS

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that ...
EDMUND PHELPS

When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and fina...
EDMUND PHELPS

My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS

Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their con...
EDMUND PHELPS

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
EDMUND PHELPS

Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their c...
EDMUND PHELPS

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS

Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist,...
--PHELPS ADAMS

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
AUSTIN PHELPS

Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising...
EDMUND PHELPS

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I lov...
EDMUND PHELPS

I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innu...
EDMUND PHELPS

The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas h...
EDMUND PHELPS

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start ne...
EDMUND PHELPS

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
MICHAEL PHELPS

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's fi...
MICHAEL PHELPS

It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you ex...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids...
MICHAEL PHELPS

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to sw...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.&#...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ...
MICHAEL PHELPS

The more you dream the more you achieve.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.
MICHAEL PHELPS

Every sponsor I've had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decisi...
MICHAEL PHELPS

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to ...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I'm a Dunkin' Donuts kind of guy. I also like Cadbury's.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
MICHAEL PHELPS

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
MICHAEL PHELPS

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wa...
MICHAEL PHELPS

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
MICHAEL PHELPS

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented to...
EDMUND PHELPS

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It'...
MICHAEL PHELPS

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' empl...
EDMUND PHELPS

Are you living for the things you are praying for?
AUSTIN PHELPS

A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arra...
EDMUND PHELPS

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and ...
EDMUND PHELPS

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an ...
MICHAEL PHELPS

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, y...
MICHAEL PHELPS

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal an...
EDMUND PHELPS

We're pleased to put this behind us. This has been two years of turmoil and bullying by this union.
CASSANDRA PHELPS

The contract we agreed upon was not that different from the one that we've proposed all along. It's ...
CASSANDRA PHELPS

This was a hard decision but a stand we had to take to put an end to these continued strikes and thr...
CASSANDRA PHELPS

This is an example of this change and the fear that it puts in the hearts and minds of independent p...
CASSANDRA PHELPS

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
EDWARD PHELPS

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with increm...
EDMUND PHELPS

America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few ...
EDMUND PHELPS

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
EDMUND PHELPS

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

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