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“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.”

Source: Advice for a Young Investigator

“Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.”

Needs Problem Hours Half Failing Week Design Rivers Bases Bridges Swings Locks Up And Down Obsolete Portal Barges

Author:Ray LaHood

“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”

Two Three Hours Laughing Failing Subjects Argument Tables Endless Phrases Fists Noticing Banging Wranglers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.”

Ifs Long Hard Running Life Is Passion Enjoy Hours Decision Numbers Failing Long Hours Hard Decision Running A Business

Author:Richard Branson

“I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want to do. I only sleep four hours a night.”

Want Bigs Night Hours Challenges Sleep Morning Four Failing Wake Up Every Morning

Author:Michelle Mone

“That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.”

Men Firsts Stills Hard Helping Humanity Hours Failing Dog Infinite Hardest Rejection Despise Obscurity Clans

Book:Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities

Source: Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities

“One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a half. That's totally unnecessary. If it's cardiovascular, you don't need more than 15 to 17 or 18 minutes if it's vigorous.”

People Ifs Needs Reason Hours Half Failing Minutes Unnecessary Vigorous Treadmills Cardiovascular

Author:Jack LaLanne

“The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.”

Men Giving Hours Failing Willing He Man Fairs Paid Foolish

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period of approximately 1,825 consecutive days. The benefits are sorely in need of amendment: no vacations, no sick leave, no lunch hours, no breaks. Moreover, it is the only unpaid position I know of that can result in arrest if you fail to show up for work.”

Ifs Knows Needs Shows Jobs Mother Hours Results Break Failing Position Periods Benefits Sick Description Lunch Vacation Amendments Revision Consecutive Sick Leave

Author:Mary Blakely

“Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.”

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”

Needs May Children Remember Father Hours Failing Sorrow Comfort Mere Knees Sat Rely Father Son One Friend When All Else Fails

Book:File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles

Source: File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles

“Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.”

People Said House Hours Failing Car Taught Biographies Cleaning Great People Clean House

Author:Tony Robbins