#scarcity

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats. ↗

— Brené Brown

#scarcity #society #stress #vulnerability #courage

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#living #love #make #make it happen #only

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. ↗

— Seth Godin

#book #buy #going #good #good reason

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. ↗

— Will Oldham

#excess #more #rewarding #scarcity #than

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#economic #force #free #gift #handled

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#masters #mind #old #scarcity #their

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#commodity #create #more #scarcity #time

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#collector #enjoyable #gives #itself #makes

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#gold #like #only #owes #praise

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#between #cat #deadly #dog #easier