“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!” YearsWellsResultsProgressChangedPaintingOne DayTenYellowPalette Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“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
“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.” ThinkingMenGivingYearsChildrenDifferentFeelingsRunningAgeStrongLossRaceExistenceCareersFiveWifeImpossibleObjectsChangedTenConnectionsMaturityThirtyFiftyAutumnCompanionFifteenProspectsFifteen YearsSprung Book:Lodore Source: Lodore
“In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.” ResultsBrainChangedEvolutionTenConnectionsAccidentsBillionsNervousOrgansPrimitiveNervous SystemNeurons Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“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
“Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.” FeelsYearsBodyChangedTenMusclesPilates Author:Lucy Liu
“In the U.S., some extraordinary movies have been made on politics and social issues. We learned lots of things from American cinema. But in the last ten or fifteen years, this has changed drastically. Today, that kind of movie is much easier to make in Europe.” YearsKindHas BeensMadeTodayLastsSocialIssuesChangedEasierTenEuropeExtraordinaryCinemaFifteenSocial IssuesFifteen Years Author:Costa-Gavras
“"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.” ThinkingYearsBookWholeCharacterLastsThreeChangedMonthsNeededTenSignificantLast YearDiagnosisThree MonthsWholesaleSmall Changes Author:Alan Lightman
“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.” YearsBookSchoolNextChangedTenObsoleteSchool System Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.” ThinkingBodyEyeLevelsClearMinutesDogChangedTenYour BodyPositive ThoughtsPhysiologicalReally Positive Author:Moby
“The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.” GivingWholeWould BeThreeMillionsEconomyRecordsFiveGroupsChangedTenDollarsEightyMillion DollarsUpside Down Author:Tony Visconti