“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?” IfsLongArtStuffForgetCompanySuccessfulRecordsFourPaintingEqualLawyerForget ItGalleryRecord CompaniesPatronLeonardoPublicists Author:Debbie Harry
“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongWould BeForgetFourPaperNewsTwentiesDecadesDisappointedPapersDroppingFinishingBad NewsExpectancyLife ExpectancyConvocation Author:Adrian Tan
“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.” BookThreeForgetHealingCasesTakenFourMinutesTenDoctorsSickDollarsMedicineMedicalPhysiciansLecturesDissection Book:FRESH LEAVES Source: FRESH LEAVES
“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.” IfsGivingYearsTwoTodayArtistForgetMillionsGoneFiveFourCoupleSellsReleaseFive YearsCopiesForget You Author:George Jones
“Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.” IfsThinkingShouldDoeAnswersForgetIssuesFourDogCallingManagementLegsManagersNever ForgetTailsAbrahamAccountingRiddle Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.” IfsMenShouldMindDifficultJusticeForgetNumbersFourWifeAchieveEffectsEqualTreatsProphetAcquireSpokesMaximumReductionPrevailingFeatsDiligentWesternersEqual Justice Book:Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam Source: Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam
“The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."” KnowsWritingDoeTwoIdeasPoliticalThreeForgetFourStudentsOrganizedNever ForgetIrrelevantOne WordForget YouThree WordsWriting Words Author:Dave Hickey
“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanLostNaturalForgetBrainFourPlanetsPerspectiveComputerLosingBillionsOrganismsNatural HistoryYears Of Life Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.” ThinkingWorldWarMotherCoursesFatherSidesLossForgetFiveFourBrotherMajorsMy FamilyDiedRussiaWar Of The WorldsSecond World WarGreat Loss Author:Vladimir Putin
“We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.” PeopleIdeasDreamPerfectForgetMillionsFourProgressPerfectionCreditSixtyChipsTransistors Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.” PeopleStatesGivenForgetClassTeacherFourPraiseArguingShootingGradesSubtleNever ForgetGiven UpSixth GradeKent Author:Jello Biafra