“Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.” PeopleThinkingLongYoungStuffCitiesStepsMillionsFiveNew YorkAreasBreathsMovedBusyRealisingFarmsTransitionDirtCentreWhere You ComeDirt Roads Author:Diego Klattenhoff
“It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.” YearsMindPersonsFiveAtheismWillingAreasFive YearsProtectedTabooHaving PatienceTreading Author:Garrett Hardin
“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindPersonsIdeasHelpingGovernmentMightJobsCertainHoursFiveFourWeekOfficeCapableAreasGood IdeasDistributionMonstrousReceiptsGovernment Jobs Author:Grace Slick
“Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on.” PeopleMatterHappensPainLastsFallThreeGrowsChallengesFiveFourMinutesGoes OnAreasWake UpNo Matter WhatAthleteChampionMusclesGutsDividesNo FearFive MinutesKill MeHave No FearFaintingGreat BodybuildingPassing Out Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsCasesFiveHappenedCreatingAreasPatternsLocalsParksFive YearsDozenLegislationProposeNational Parks Author:Mo Udall
“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.” YearsKidsMotherThreeWhiteClassFiveNiceChildhoodMiddleBrotherDadAreasSevenMy DadActiveMy BrotherMiddle ClassExhaustedSeven YearsAttorneyHousewifeHappy ChildhoodIdyllicUpper Middle ClassThree Sisters Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.” LittlesKidsWantedBitsAttentionClassFiveLittle BitAreasBaseballTheaterLeagueSantaBarbaraDance ClassLittle LeagueLittle League BaseballSanta Barbara Author:Anthony Edwards
“One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.” YearsMadeHomeEyeThreeMy OwnDecisionFiveWiseLandBuildingAreasPropertyPlanningBuyingPlotThree YearsPermissionBedroomWise DecisionRichmond Author:Anthea Turner
“There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?” NeedsWritingTryingI CanHardShowsLastsGuyLinesInterestingFiveFrontsAreas Author:Cody Johnson
“I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.” TryingChoicesEnergyFiveParticularLimitsPicksAreasPrioritiesGood Choices Author:Sheena Iyengar
“We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a lot of different boards trying to help in those important areas.” WorldNeedsTryingImportantDifferentCountryHelpingProblemBigsDealsFiveAirOceanAreasOvercomingAround The WorldBoardsGreat MenPlasticPollutionAir Pollution Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this area, they will search not only for me, but for any Palestinian to speak with him. And they will say, "We have five million Arabs in the United States. We can't avoid them."” StatesSpeakInterestUnitedMillionsUnited StatesFiveAreasInternationalAdministrationPalestinianConferencesFinding PeaceFollow Up Author:Yasser Arafat
“Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of the festival, and was written about in a number of different reviews.” DifferentNumbersFiveWrittenAreasQueensReviewsFestivals Author:Tom Russell
“I was born in Oakland and grew up, probably about five miles from Oakland, in Hayward. And Hayward was OK. Like, Hayward wasn't - very much a working-class area and had definitely went through a decline and is now, seemingly, coming back around, which is nice to see.” BornClassFiveNiceGrewGrew UpAreasMilesDeclineWorking ClassComing BackOakland Author:Mahershala Ali
“Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.” ChildrenTodaySchoolWhiteCitiesFiveStudentsTenAreasPopulationExceptionUrbanNormInner CityUrban AreasInner City Schools Author:Jonathan Kozol
“I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.” YearsHouseSidesBornCitiesFiveChangedAreasSouthFive YearsNeighborhoodFortyChicagoRatsOctober Book:Maybe You Never Cry Again Source: Maybe You Never Cry Again
“Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.” IfsThinkingWayWantYearsTwoMatterMightGrowsGrowthLinesRoomsFivePositionAreasEmployeeReviewsDisservice Author:Kathryn Minshew
“Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.” PeopleWritingHas BeensCountryFactsHomeNaturalMillionsFivePeriodsAreasWideDisasterOur CountryCoastColumnsNatural Disaster Author:Jo Bonner