Alan Oster quote: "Businesses continue to look at the future with some skepticism. Companies again report weaker employment outcomes in December, while capital spending also weakened somewhat. The official cash rate is even more firmly on hold for the foreseeable future."

Oil-sensitive sectors continue to weaken, led down by retailing, wholesaling and transport,
ALAN OSTER

The story is one of continuing boom conditions in mining and very strong nonresidential construction...
ALAN OSTER

There was continuing strength in mining, equipment manufacturing, nonresidential construction and ut...
ALAN OSTER

This says to me that interest rates are firmly on hold. This economy is slowing down and there may b...
ALAN OSTER

The near-term inflation outlook will cause the Reserve Bank some short term concern,
ALAN OSTER

Business appears increasingly concerned that further weakness is in prospect. The Reserve Bank is ve...
ALAN OSTER

Overall, we still see the official cash rate being increased by around 1.25 percent in total, bring ...
ALAN OSTER

The pace of economic activity is continuing to moderate. The Reserve Bank is very much on hold, watc...
ALAN OSTER

For 2001, we expect [Japanese] growth of marginally less than 1 percent.
ALAN OSTER

The deterioration in agribusiness contrasts starkly with the ongoing strength in the non-farm busine...
ALAN OSTER

While the RBA might engage in occasional bouts of jawboning, we see little prospect of the RBA movin...
ALAN OSTER

How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.
EMILY OSTER

If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my...
EMILY OSTER

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and e...
EMILY OSTER

I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of e...
EMILY OSTER

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at gr...
EMILY OSTER

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as ac...
EMILY OSTER

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as oppos...
EMILY OSTER

The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To p...
EMILY OSTER

Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to t...
EMILY OSTER

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.
EMILY OSTER

The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analy...
EMILY OSTER

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining i...
EMILY OSTER

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they...
EMILY OSTER

I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because...
EMILY OSTER

I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are...
EMILY OSTER

Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day...
EMILY OSTER

Craig works really, really hard. He hustles, and he never second guesses anything that I ask him to ...
JASON OSTER

All's fair in love and purchasing.
EMILY OSTER

He's coming from the tough side of the tracks, and he has done extraordinarily well. I'm told he is ...
RICHARD OSTER

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for empl...
EMILY OSTER

I'm really happy with him. We've really juggled him around this year and he's found a home there.
JASON OSTER

He's a horse. He's just a robot that goes out there and does what he's supposed to.
JASON OSTER

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with ...
EMILY OSTER

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.
EMILY OSTER

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregn...
EMILY OSTER

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpret...
EMILY OSTER

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a d...
EMILY OSTER

I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral ...
EMILY OSTER

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose...
EMILY OSTER

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.
EMILY OSTER

We actually go to king school to learn to use the scepter. You first acknowledge the people upstairs...
RICHARD OSTER

Since the hurricane, the size of the choir has doubled; workers are showing up who had not been in c...
MERRILL OSTER

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY

If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS

Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS

No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES

Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING

It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING

When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER

In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN

At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY

We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY

Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY

He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY

We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ...
ALAN CURRY

We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.
ALAN CURRY

The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY

I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried.
ALAN CURRY

It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON

We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the...
ALAN CURTIS

[Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future...
ALAN CURTIS

But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra...
ALAN CURTIS

If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,
ALAN CURTIS

This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct...
ALAN CURRY

It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ...
ALAN CURRY

The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to...
ALAN CURRY

He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.
ALAN DAVIES

I think a lot of people feel it would be a mistake.
ALAN DAVIDSON

Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected,
ALAN DAVIDSON

Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, somethi...
ALAN DAVIDSON

From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.
ALAN DAVIDSON

This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards...
ALAN DAVIDSON

They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some...
ALAN DAVIDSON

it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill.
ALAN DAVIDSON

We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracki...
ALAN DAVIDSON

I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.
ALAN DAVIDSON

It's been a long time coming. Thank God for this day.
ALAN CROTZER

Here I am trying to build a life and I have nothing to build it with. It's wrong, just wrong.
ALAN CROTZER

If you really want the truth, leave no stone unturned.
ALAN CROTZER

There ain't no compensation for what they done to me. But I'm not bitter.
ALAN CROTZER

Especially when it comes to sex offenses, history is a big predictor of the future,
ALAN CROPSEY

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,
ALAN CROPSEY

Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start ou...
ALAN CROPSEY

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.
ALAN CROPSEY

When you have a chance to make plays and don't, you can almost be assured the final score will not f...
ALAN CRAWFORD

You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or th...
ALAN CRAWFORD

Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 ...
ALAN CULPEPPER

The Olympic Games tends to be a little more of a coming together of all the nations, so it's differe...
ALAN CULPEPPER

Our sport needs spectator friendly and all the help it can get on that side. That adds to the allure...
ALAN CULPEPPER

There was a moment there when we were getting concerned,
ALAN CULPEPPER

Most countries around the world, they just don't think that way. They think, 'I'm just going to get ...
ALAN CULPEPPER

I feel like the bad conditions and the tough course is to my advantage, just because a lot of people...
ALAN CULPEPPER

Every time we tried to get going there was some factor -- weather, wind or turns. I think we all suf...
ALAN CULPEPPER

For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare...
ALAN CULPEPPER

Basically I'm from the old school. We try to score one run an inning in any fashion. A lot of times ...
ALAN CRAWFORD

Our defense has been real inconsistent. We've got five weeks to fix it. Hopefully by district tourna...
ALAN CRAWFORD

They're nice kids to coach. They work hard. They hit their spots. They don't try to strike everybody...
ALAN CRAWFORD

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, b...
ALAN CRANSTON

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back...
ALAN CRANSTON

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision...
ALAN CRANSTON

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things ...
ALAN CRANSTON

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, havin...
ALAN CRANSTON

The American people are much more concerned about taxes, welfare, the deficit, crime, education, dru...
ALAN CRANSTON

It's important to recognize that many people working together can do things which individuals workin...
ALAN CRANSTON

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and G...
ALAN CRANSTON

For [customers] it means that they can shop for 'Linux applications' without having to worry about w...
ALAN COX

I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off un...
ALAN COX

What matters are the applications.
ALAN COX

I'm going to Disneyland!
ALAN COX

It's all right to cry. It's all right to hurt. It's all right to be confused, ... Hope will rebuild ...
ALAN COX

He's a great kid.
ALAN COX

They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon the...
ALAN COX

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the re...
ALAN COX

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.
ALAN COX

The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing. It's the main site of action where everyt...
ALAN COWMAN

The promoter is all you need for activation and silencing.
ALAN COWMAN

Businesses continue to look at the future with some skepticism. Companies again report weaker employment outcomes in December, while capital spending also weakened somewhat. The official cash rate is even more firmly on hold for the foreseeable future.

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Businesses continue to look at the future with some skepticism. Companies again report weaker employment outcomes in December, while capital spending also weakened somewhat. The official cash rate is even more firmly on hold for the foreseeable future.

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