#inability

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#angry #debate #democrats #even #even worse

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#constraint #growth #hire #inability #many

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#barack #barack obama #choice #continue #facts

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sustainable world. They see it as a world to move toward not reluctantly, but joyfully, not with a sense of sacrifice, but a sense of adventure. A sustainable world could be very much better than the one we live in today. ↗

— Donella H. Meadows

#growth #sustainability #imagination

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#failings #inability #mankind #quiet #stay

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #because #been #ensure #eve

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#large #life #music #my life #part