“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.” ShouldWellsThreeImpossibleEffectsTenGainsDifficultyPaintAppearanceSpeedInchesCanvasYardsFleeting Author:Joaquin Sorolla
“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.” ThinkingWorldFirstsLooksMadeSeemsLastsThreeNextSportsRaceHalfPositionBearsTenHappeningsHundredGainsEternityDown AndFinalsAthleteNineBlockLook UpSecondsYardsStrideSprinters Book:I Have Changed Source: I Have Changed
“For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.” PeopleCountryReasonDoneJobsPoliticalPassionThreeVoiceInterestLinesRoomsPartyHistoryWillingGainsDeterminationIndependenceDecadesDebateDevotionOur CountrySenateSenatorsCommitteesChamberToughnessConstituentsAislePennsylvaniaGet The Job DoneVoice Of Reason Author:Nancy Pelosi
“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.” IfsWayMayChildrenLongTwoRunningThreeLossWalksResultsCarMastersBabyTenGainsTablesCorePushingRacingLong RunsPullingIrrelevantSpectacularStretchingElusiveUnimportantAlphabetShrinkingRace CarIrrevocableChild DevelopmentInterim Author:Stella Chess
“Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked.” IfsKnowsYearsTwoImportantShowsThreeCareersGoneHavensTvsGainsReputationThree YearsTicketsTv Shows Author:Chris Rock
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.” MenFirstsChildrenPersonsDifferentUseThreeNamesNationsCausesOpinionWifeViolenceMastersGloryReflectionGainsDirectThirdsSafetyCompetitionProfessionReputationPrincipalQuarrelsTriflesCattleNature Of ManKindredDifferent OpinionsDiffidence Book:Leviathan, Parts I and II Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.” TwoBookThreeReadingGainsTailsTigersThree TimesGrabbing Author:Mark Twain
“The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.” IfsFirstsHas BeensLightLyingMotivationThreeOpportunityFourFoolIntellectualGainsStartingDecadesHardshipMinistryPreachingDiscipleRidiculeMartyrHostilityRenounceUnwavering Author:J.P. Moreland
“Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.” IdeasMomentsThreeStageGainsEngagedDimensions Author:Kate Tempest
“We have to convince the white worker that they have something to gain by forming a solidarity politics with black workers because everything that's happened over the last three to 400 years in America has divided the white and the black worker.” YearsLastsAmericaThreeBlackWhiteHappenedGainsWorkersConvinceDividedSolidarity Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there.” PersonsLongMovingOrderThreeTermPayPolicyTaxesHighestGainsRateStartingFavorsIncomeLong TermProgressiveMinimumStoppingClosingInstituteIncome TaxMinimum WageLoopholesImplementingCapital GainsCapital Gains TaxProgressive Tax Author:Philip Kotler
“Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands.” KnowsThreeSocialAudienceKnow HowPiecesIndustryGainsComplexesEntertainmentConnectedBrandsAgencyAdsSocial NetworkActivateMergers Author:Ashton Kutcher
“But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.” HomeBigsSchoolOrderThreeLostFeltLosesWalksGainsDistanceShoesScaredVulnerableShellsCasualtiesChunks Book:About a Boy Source: About a Boy
“To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.” IfsHeartPersonsRealSelfDesireHateChoicesThreeLosesChanceGainsBlameConvinceLeapHave CourageOld SelfOld Life Book:Hit List Source: Hit List