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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices. -- Warren Buffett
Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. -- Shelley E. Taylor
Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can. -- Drew Bledsoe
For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life. -- Eduardo Saverin
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. -- Elbert Hubbard
What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner. -- Mariella Frostrup
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute. -- Thomas Pogge
By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees. -- Jon Porter
If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer. -- Beck
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. -- David Sedaris
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting. -- Dabney Coleman
I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive. -- Alan Sugar
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them. -- Mohsin Hamid
If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective. -- Jeb Bush
My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming. -- Lionel Barber
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. -- David Ogilvy
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K. -- Rory Bremner
If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates. -- Lauren Conrad
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. -- William Glasser
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here. -- Nathan Myhrvold
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army. -- Karen Abbott
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people? -- Donald Johanson
Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates' styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn't know what it wants. -- Martin Filler
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. -- Dale T. Mortensen
I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process. -- Eric Ries
It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do. -- Jeff Greenfield
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off. -- Douglas Rushkoff
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values. -- Warren Buffett
Nut cases only succeed in multiple killings when they can be confident their prospective victims are disarmed. -- Vin Suprynowicz
You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends--and his. -- Harriet Lerner
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. -- Albert Bandura
When asked by a prospective donor how much he should give, the best reply is, "Give until you are proud." -- Paul Ireland
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. -- Raymond Chandler
As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag. -- Alice Sebold
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner. -- Warren Buffett
MY MOUTH OPENED.Way to go, Clare. Way to impress the mother of a prospective boyfriend. Moms love their boys to date psycho overprotective girls." -- Kim Harrington
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not. -- T.H. White
The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse. -- Epictetus
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Donâ??t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program] -- Abba Eban
Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going. -- Jillian Hervey
The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government. -- Franklin Pierce
No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place. -- Patricia Schroeder
We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners. -- Nick Hornby
It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial... -- Warren Buffett
Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. -- Timothy J. Russert
Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. -- Timothy J. Russert

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