“It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.” MadeThreeSpaceTechnologyFieldsChangedCostDecadesAccessErasCapabilityApolloReducingStrideReliability Author:Elon Musk
“Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.” IfsThinkingGivingRealityLastsAsksExampleChangedCoupleClimateDecades Author:James Lovelock
“He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.” TryingPersonsStuffKnownChangedTrumpToughIntelligentDrivenDecadesBossMotivatedNailsCharismaticHighly Intelligent Author:Geraldo Rivera
“London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.” WorldWayYearsHomePastChangedTenEatingSittingYears AgoDrinkingLondonDecadesCoffeeCooksSitting AroundDrinking CoffeeEating OutAlways Eating Author:Doris Lessing
“Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has altered maternal expectations. This renders baby-care requirements discordant with ambition for many mothers, and produces heartfelt dilemmas for others.” NeedsLittlesCarePastMotherOpportunityChangedProduceBabyAmbitionExpectationsFemaleDecadesRequirementsDilemmaAlteredOver The PastHeartfelt Author:Joan Raphael-Leff
“The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.” ThinkingNeedsShouldIdeasLightMightTodayGivenFailingFeminismChangedTheoryStrategyDetailsDecadesExperimentsEnormousPursueEvolveTake TimeDominantOrganizeImplicationsDiscouragingSociety Today Author:Charlotte Bunch
“I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays.” YearsPlayChangedDirectorsTenTwentiesDecadesDividesPhasesScreenwritingJournalisticLife Has Changed Author:Nora Ephron
“I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsTryingChildrenIdeasFeelingsJobsStrongParentPerfectWorryAdviceChangedOughtOur ChildrenDecadesOne WayYour ChildrenExpertsCompelledStrong FeelingNew ParentsPerfect Job Author:Benjamin Spock
“Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.” YearsLightMightLastsFormNextImpossibleChangedCommunicationInternetDistanceSpeedDecadesSmokeDataMailFree SpeechPrimitiveReplacedSignalsSpeed Of LightSmoke Signals Author:Steve Martin
“It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsStillsDifferentSelfCommonChangedDecadesEvolveImpulseTransformedWiserDifferent PeoplesKinderYounger Self Author:Carrie Brownstein
“For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.” LittlesNationsPracticeMiddlePolicyChangedApproachSakeEastDecadesOppressionStabilityMiddle EastI Have Changed Author:George W. Bush
“I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanFilmLanguagePrinciplesMediaHavensChangedAdventureExcitingDecadesExploringNew Media Author:Ang Lee
“It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.” SelfWholeNextLostChangedDecadesPityOutlookSelf PityTurning 40 Author:Chris Hardwick
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.” ThinkingMindStillsPlayMomentsTogetherMotherDiesThreeWaterNaturalSawsHappenedChangedBabyDrinkProtectionDecadesThat MomentReservesElephantsFootprintKenyaSo SadDrink WaterPoaching Author:Li Bingbing
“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.” YearsHumansLinesHuman BeingsRecordsWrittenChangedRevolutionCoupleThousandComputerDrawsHundredSpeedDecadesThousand YearsScientific Revolution Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.” RealityChangedTelevisionDecadesReality Television Author:Chuck Todd
“The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.” PastThreeIndividualCareersRolesChangedBalanceNewsDecadesGood NewsAutonomyOver The PastWomen's RolesIndividual Autonomy Author:Michael Kimmel
“I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.” WritingFirstsBookWorstChangedSickTwentiesIllnessDecadesAcceptedExoticChanged My Life Author:Judy Blume
“I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.” PeopleKnowsCountryReasonTodayLastsChangedEuropeDecadesEnormousIslamicOur Society Author:Geert Wilders
“Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.” TodayLastsRolesGreaterChangedCookingDecadesChef Author:Gordon Ramsay