#cost

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#being #conscious #cost #i #living

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#comes #costume #embody #especially #language

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#exports #growth #heavy #intensive #investment

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#clean #cost #drinking #drinking water #earth

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#around #cap-and-trade #costs #dangerous #everything

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#avoided #best #costs #eye #i

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#attitude #bag #brand #brand new #costello

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#cause #costing #end #i #i love

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#build #capital #capital investment #cost #each