“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.” IfsMadeSaidTwoThreeChanceSeaExampleTenRiversTwentiesFoundationAssumingFinalsCaughtFishesBoatThirtyLakesFishingFortyArrangements Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.” IfsMayDoneMarriageExampleCoupleThousandTen Book:The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple Source: The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple
“I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.” PeopleYearsIdeasRealMatterDifficultWonderfulMediaExamplePoliticianTenDiscussionAttractiveMuseumsCollaborationArchitectClientsWonderful ExperienceCurator Author:David Chipperfield
“Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.” PeopleFirstsDesireWishExampleTenPrioritiesSecureCommandmentsImpressYou AgainTen CommandmentsGod FirstPut God First Author:Dallas Willard
“My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.” PeopleIfsYearsArtSocialBlackExampleTheoryTenNineBlack PeopleBest YearBest Art Author:Questlove
“I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.” IdeasDifferentHardWould BeKidsUsedNightFoundSpeakParentRealizingExampleBedTenToolsLettersFaultsDumbAll NightResentAlphabetSpeak EnglishUp All NightLetters Of The Alphabet Author:Paul Reiser
“At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.” WorldMomentsMovingExampleTenPercentAround The WorldServantRelatedGoodsRulersChasingNinetyGoods And ServicesChasing Money Author:Satish Kumar
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.” YearsEndsEarthKnownMillionsFiveSawsWorstExamplePlanetsBalancePeriodsTenMassPercentTwentiesClimateClimate ChangeCrapCoastNinetyExtinctionEcosystemsPredatorRippedRecoveringCrocodilesEruptionMegaMass ExtinctionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Annalee Newitz