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“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.”

Years Seems Faces Loses Half Five Four Bears Average Stranger Customers Loyalty Corporations Experts Five Years Employee Statistics Investors Transactions Business Relationship

Author:Fred Reichheld

“If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.”

“The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.”

Knows Years Matter Death Girl Accepting Five Shoes Five Years Life And Death Forty Mature Hung Foxes Daddy Belts Old Woman Five Year Olds

Author:Mary-Lou Weisman

“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.”

People Writing Trying Years Persons Made Two Whole Five Teacher Normal Sight Down And University Contact Wonderland

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.”

Needs Years Children Long Parent Understanding Support Struggle Five Friends Engaged Five Years Allies Five Year Olds Frantic Forecasts Parent Child

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Heart Littles Hours Five Six Eating Years Ago Meat Chickens Heart Beat Eating Meat Heart Beating

Author:Constance Marie

“I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Years States Community Half Five Fronts Court Lawyer Supreme Chiefs Texas Senate Supreme Court Organizer Half A Year Solicitors

Author:Ted Cruz

“Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.”

Years Two Book Views Known Five Generations Teaching Masters Thousand Glory Hundred Years Ago Lifetime Followers Dedicated Scorn Handful Future Generation

Author:Confucius

“We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.”

Life Years Important Country Next Economy Five News Let Me Our Country Our Family Five Years Good Life Good News Family Life

Author:David Cameron

“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.”

Giving Years Children Age Today School Dies Chance Five Birth Five Years Afghanistan Disputes Giving Birth Five Year Olds

Author:Graeme Smith

“My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it.”

Knows Trying Years Night Five Minutes Twenties Response Damn Five Years Every Night Embarrassed Make You Happy Twenty Five

Author:Ric Flair

“I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.”

People Thinking Giving Years Mean Littles Brain Issues Five Planets Thousand Years Ago Environmental Thousand Years Stewardship

Author:Douglas Coupland

“I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them.... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.”

People Thinking Want Years Country Certain Belief Change Five Twenties What You Want Fixed Five Years Misconception Twenty Five

Author:William M. Daley

“Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.”

Years Five Fool Baseball Good Years

Author:Frankie Frisch

“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...”

“When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.”

Years Turns Three Steps Enemy Five Plans Tvs Creating Models Concepts Russia Eras Giants Five Years Nightmare Soviet Turn-on Missiles Five Year Plans

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.”

Ifs Years Used Three Stars Careers Five Lucky Used To Be Five Years Movie Star

Author:Rex Smith

“When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.”

Years Made Two Five Mom Red Scary My Mom Five Years Two Years Layers Halloween Cloaks Five Year Olds

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.”

Knows Want Years Believe Life Is Certain I Believe Causes Lines Five Five Years Meaningless Without Hope

Author:Joe Budden

“I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.”

Years Moving Five Six Stuck

Author:Sean Bean

“I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.”

World Years Found Enjoy Economy Five Skills I Realized Five Years Expecting Playboy Business World

Author:Christie Hefner

“Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.”

Trying Years Kindness Virtue Five Hundred Years Ago Bases Twenties Who We Are Reaching Spokes Reach Out Always Trying Twenty Five Laos Lao Tzu

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.”

People Years Stills States Jobs Found Opportunity Lost Talking Five Industry Computer Years Ago Twenties Constant Phones Cells Five Years Cell Phone Twenty Five

Author:Wayne Dyer

“During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.”

Years Five Crime Prison Eras Five Years Soviet Ownership

Author:Anatoly Chubais

“I think we're different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate's [Uptone] like my daughter. She's only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her.”

Thinking Way Years Different Real Wanted Five Teacher Protect Daughter Screens Real Life Five Years My Daughter Kate Complement Cameron

Author:Leslie Mann

“I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.”

Years Littles Care Sports Taken Five Magic Lessons Beats Don't Care I Don't Care Five Years Hats Five Year Olds Capes Jocks Top Hats

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.”

Ifs Years Wells Looks Long Bigs Seems Joy Term Pay Attention Five Generations Sadness Fans Century Lessons Long Time Decades Pay Attention Joy And Sadness

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.”

Years Past Five Surprise Seven Eight Japan Stimulus

Author:Milton Friedman

“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.”

Years Long Different Would Be Together Felt Loses Chance Five Example Response Pursue Comic Enjoyed Five Years Rejected Unemployed Good Chance Hobbes Comic Strips Long Road

Author:Bill Watterson

“I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.”

Years Play Kids Used Mother Fun Stars Five Seven Neighborhood Cents Seven Years Garage

Author:Franny Armstrong

“The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.”

Years Political Politics Term Five Five Years Governors Term Limits Reelection

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Years Know How Five Five Years

Author:Larry Ellison

“When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.”

Years I Can Important Stories Mother Father Parent Five Four Imagine Heard Five Years Survivor Holocaust Making Love Five Year Olds

Author:Christian Boltanski

“I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.”

People Years Book Three Five Written Lazy Three Years Isaac

Author:Ethan Canin

“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.”

Years Wells Doe Two Play Helping Bigs Quality Roles Five Progress Achieve Football Six Constant Seven Two Years Seven Years Life Time

Author:Berti Vogts

“I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships.”

Years Firsts Fun Water Five Safety Moved Clubs Five Years Swim Schemes Championship Five Year Olds National Championships Water Safety

Author:Liam Tancock

“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.”

“I have two sons now. And just being on the road all the time - I was on the road for about five years straight, and at some point, something clicks inside your head and you think, "Man, I've got to figure out what's going on inside myself," as far as my personal faith.”

Thinking Men Years Two Five Figures Son Five Years Just Being Clicks

Author:Mason Jennings

“I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.”

Years Kids Known Five Streets Five Years Five Year Olds Demonstrating

Author:Christopher Doyle

“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Two Hands House Lost Five Changed Give Me Remains Legs Ease Five Years Forty Masterpiece Crippled Baltimore Two Hands Decorators

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.”

Years Said States Lasts America Situation Five Four Percent Years Ago Supreme Islamic Five Years Department Controlled Council Extremist Mosques

Author:Peter King

“As soon as you meet him [james Corden], within five minutes you'll want to sleep with him. He presented me with my award for Comedy Actress of the Year at the Glamour Awards and he said such lovely things. He's so charming and he listens to you and he's funny and sensitive and adorable. I can totally see why all the women fall for him.”

Want Years Said I Can Fall Sleep Five Comedy Minutes Actresses Lovely Sensitive Awards Charming Five Minutes Glamour Adorable Lovely Things Want To Sleep

Author:Joanna Page

“I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.”

Years I Can Used Given Water Can Do Five Taught Band Clubs Spain 1960s Skis Dave Skiing Water Skiing

Author:Tony Blackburn

“I don't like people being rude. Bad manners and arrogance make me cross. People making others feel uncomfortable. And I really don't like it in restaurants when people are rude or patronising to waiters. I feel like saying, 'They're not your slave'. But my knees only shake around once every five years. You're safe, don't worry.”

People Feels Years Worry Five Safe Crosses Slave Manners Knees Uncomfortable Arrogance Restaurants Five Years Shakes Rude Waiter Bad Manners Being Rude

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.”

People Years Five Happened Six Complaining Feds Inflation Predicting Runaway

Author:Paul Krugman

“Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.”

People Giving Years Book Use Seems Able Remember Three Fiction Five Impossible Scene Ten Conversation Pages Memoir Dialogue Five Years Conventions Astonishing Five Year Olds

Author:Paul Auster

“Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.”

“It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.”

World Years War Country Five Four Progress Car Design War Of The Worlds Five Years World War Ii Four Years World War I New Car

Author:Ross Perot

“Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."”

Life Inspirational Years Lasts Next Millions Five Minutes Inspirational Life Five Minutes Singularity

Author:Kevin Kelly

“The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.”

Years Firsts Five Six Hospitals Hospitality

Author:Ryan White

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