“My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.” YearsWellsAbleRememberYoungMemoriesGenerationsHappenedExampleBirthProgramMy GenerationParamountRemembers EverythingYoung GenerationQuiz Author:Umberto Eco
“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.” YearsImportantMatterWantedSituationAcceptingExamplePositionInvolvedHappeningsEssenceTechniqueDrunkShootingObserversAestheticsBeing Drunk Author:Antoine D'Agata
“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
“In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.” IfsGivingYearsLongIdeasLostOpinionModernExamplePeriodsLowsLet MeStrategyMaking MoneyMisconceptionLong Periods Of TimeLost Money Author:Victor Sperandeo
“The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.” YearsCountryReasonHouseWhiteClearInfluenceMiddleExamplePositionWesternIsraelEastDecadesAdministrationWhite HouseAllowingBrotherhoodMiddle EastMuslim Brotherhood Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld
“As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.” YearsPresidentPowerfulWonderGraceExampleCapacityForgivingFollowingSettingSettingsRedemptionRemarkableImprisonmentNelsonJailer Author:George H. W. Bush
“An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.” YearsFirstsThreeWonderVisionLordPrinciplesDoubtHappenedExampleTaughtCommunicationThings HappenProphetUnusualThree YearsTaught UsUnusual Things Author:Boyd K. Packer
“We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.” YearsTwoLosesLossResultsCompanyRiskExampleReturnTerriblePermanentNutsQuartersSteadyCandyInadequateGreat BusinessVolatility Author:Charlie Munger
“Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.” YearsHas BeensCareersExampleGreatnessLegendsMentorOver 50 Author:Yolanda Adams
“I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said that to my family. There was something there that I knew was absolutely right, and that was just based on the character. That's when gut instinct comes into play. I know there are certain things I won't do.” KnowsYearsSaidPlayCharacterRememberCertainRolesExampleSixYears AgoMy FamilyInstinctGutsRemember WhenGut Instinct Author:John Noble
“It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.” KnowsYearsHas BeensRolesExampleMastersPeriodsPhotographyOneselfMediumsCraftsServingDevotedPrivilegedTime Passes Author:Ralph Gibson
“We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.” YearsLongDifferentUseValuesSongDifficultSoundExampleShapesLong TimeNotesCraftsSongwritingRhymePurpleRogerMeterVowelsHigh NotesDeep Purple Author:Ian Gillan
“I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.” YearsAgeSpiritFiveExampleBrotherLuckMy BrotherPeculiarMy SisterBrothers And SistersSeventiesSixteenFourteen Author:Grace Paley
“We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us. For example, they say you couldn't stop me from spending all the money I've saved over the last five years on Hillary's campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform.” IfsYearsSeemsWantedLastsSpiritFiveExampleSpeechCourtDeterminedSpendingSavedCampaignsSupremeFinanceReformFive YearsFree SpeechFrustratedSupreme CourtLast Five YearsCampaign FinanceCampaign Finance Reform Author:William J. Clinton
“Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain of saying, "This kind of leadership will cause this result in these circumstances and a very different result in those circumstances." This is academic malpractice of the worst kind.” PeopleWritingYearsKindBookDifferentPainCausesResultsWorstExampleCircumstancesInnovationAcademicMalpractice Author:Clayton Christensen
“Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsIdeasWantedBehindsFictionEffectsExampleYears AgoWinterVariousMemoirInterviewsProseVolumeJournalAutobiographyEssaysFragmentsNon FictionLiterary WorksWriting Essays Author:Paul Auster
“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
“Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.” IfsThinkingMenYearsHas BeensBookStoriesArtistExampleIncrediblesDecadesComicComic BookX MenAdapting Author:David Hayter
“Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.” YearsUsedSecretExampleDemandMajorsProgramElectionDollarsPrioritiesPresidentialAgencyExtrasMore MoneyGood ExamplesPresidential ElectionSecret ServiceYear OneElection Years Author:Susan Davis
“You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.” TryingYearsHas BeensCountryUseCareAblePartyTakenExampleStudentsRepublicanTraditionInstitutionsSevenVariousUnhappyMiserableAdministrationBarackHealth CareEmsAgendasRepublican PartyLoanSeven YearsEducation SystemHealth Care SystemStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.” ThinkingMenYearsActorsExampleJokesDown AndScriptsAcceptedOld ManAwardsDeliciousPush UpsSupporting Actors Author:Bruce Vilanch
“It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.” YearsHardFourExampleWestThirtyJustifyOccupationFour YearsIsraeliSettlementGazaSettlersIsraeli Settlements Author:Edward Said
“Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensTwoAmericaCultureSecretInfluenceExampleHundredConstantBritishIndianAutobiographyDescribingThoroughScotchIntermarriage Author:Richard Rodriguez
“A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."” PeopleIfsYearsI CanJobsPassionRealizingCitiesNew YorkExamplePursueMiserableExpensiveNew York CitySomewhere ElseMy Passion Author:Tony Hsieh
“The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.” WayYearsFirstsKindSchoolDealsTalkingTechnologyExampleVirusesVaccinesOld School Author:Carl Zimmer
“The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.” NeedsYearsHardReasonFightingExampleEvolveVirusesFlu Author:Carl Zimmer
“I've learned a lot during my years on the 3rd Circuit, particularly, I think, about the way in which a judge should go about the work of judging. I've learned by doing, by sitting on all of these cases. And I think I've also learned from the examples of some really remarkable colleagues.” ThinkingWayShouldYearsCasesExampleJudgingSittingI've LearnedRemarkableColleaguesCircuits Author:Samuel Alito
“Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his principles in the middle of this very complex situation, every day for sixty years or more. I think it's something that moves many people about his example.” PeopleThinkingYearsSpiritualMovingSituationLeaderPrinciplesMiddleExamplePositionMountainComplexesSixtyLamaDalaiSpiritual LeaderMountain Top Author:Pico Iyer