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“In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.”

Years Work Subjects Months Periods Patience Fruit Perseverance Concentration Great Work Tenacious Summary Patience And Perseverance

Book:Advice for a Young Investigator

Source: Advice for a Young Investigator

“You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.”

Thinking Should Mean Today Order Individual Nations Tomorrow Periods Bounds Limitation Preserves Borrowing

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!”

Earth Lying Poor Periods Clothes Shoes Privilege Dirty Rome Beggar Ragged Picturesque

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”

Ifs Humans Age Childhood Century Youth Particular Periods Human Life Division Adolescence Privileged

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays … then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes.”

Certain Minutes Positive Source Periods Rays Sheets Electrons Alphas Bombarded Aluminum

Author:Frederic Joliot-Curie

“You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.”

Ifs Believe Past Fighting Periods Skeletons Comical

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.”

Different Song Roles Changed Evolution Periods Albums Creator Stimulus Different Meanings

Author:Robert Plant

“We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.”

Looks Important Book Facts Use Seems Values House Accepting Objects Reader Periods Relevant Analog

Author:Will Self

“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.”

Shows Film Culture Numbers Growing Up Growing Television Huge Periods Twenties Mythology Bunch Television Shows Roaring Underworld Roaring Twenties

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.”

Knows Trying Mind Shows Age Sex Know How Five Week Crazy Periods Drink Sick Aids Performing Meat Restaurants Vegetarian Starving Fast Food Abstinence Having Sex Eyeballs Fast Food Restaurants

Author:Michael Stipe

“One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.”

“The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.”

May Two Character Film Three Opportunity Hours Differences Television Periods Confined Film And Television

Author:Elijah Wood

“Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.”

Needs Song Dies Grows Ability Periods Capacity Locked Ability To Change

Author:Nick Cave

“The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.”

People Years Film Fans Periods Theater

Author:Stanley Tucci

“We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.”

Firsts Would Be America President Term Periods Obvious Dawn Division American Politics Consensus Partisans Meanness Us President

Author:William J. Clinton

“In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.”

People Powerful Emotion Leader Class Middle Periods Empathy Educated Revolutionary Middle Class Communist Very Powerful Powerful Emotions

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.”

“It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.”

People Long Jobs Periods Musician Phases Me Alone Long Periods Of Time Alone Time Drastic

Author:Angel Deradoorian

“The whole world is conscious. It's just that we become conscious at times, and you become conscious when you lose a parent, or just a loved one, period - a wife, a brother, you know. You wake up and say, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster stuff anymore, I need something with a little more substance." And there is marketing for that.”

Knows Men World Needs Littles Real Whole Stuff Parent Loses Wife Brother Periods Conscious Wake Up Marketing Whole World Substance Loved Ones Gangsters Pimp

Author:KRS-One

“The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.”

States Growth Periods Taxes Highest Rate Income Faster Zero Revenue Income Tax

Author:Arthur Laffer

“There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.”

States Moving Growth Differences Policy Huge Periods Taxes Rate Income Consistent Weekend Adam Income Tax Back Again Really Amazing Volatility

Author:Arthur Laffer

“In addition to being in constant communion with God, we are to spend regular periods of time in focused, one-on-one interaction with our Creator. And what a privilege! To have access to the throne room of heaven anytime we choose is a divine benefit we should not ignore.”

Should Heaven Rooms Divine Periods Benefits Constant Privilege Creator Focused Access Interaction Thrones Communion Communion With God One On One

Book:The Christian Husband: God's Vision for Loving and Caring for Your Wife

Source: The Christian Husband: God's Vision for Loving and Caring for Your Wife

“What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.”

Should Humans Whole Human Beings Periods Diets Vegetarian Vegetarian Diet Whole Foods

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012

“You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.”

Knows Moving Realizing Periods Fading

Author:Taylor Swift

“Theres something just magical about flight. Period.”

Periods Flight

Author:Graham Hawkes

“I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.”

Mean Gone Periods Globalization Obscurity Meaninglessness Coherence Intervening

Author:Robert Reich

“We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith”

Plans Periods Salvation Scripture Gods Will One Time Pillars

Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

“There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.”

Past Three Fashion Periods West Mae

Author:Edith Head

“Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.”

Long Willing Periods Entrepreneur Misunderstood Long Periods Of Time

Author:Jeff Bezos

“I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.”

Firsts Made Stills Different Play Song Girl Bits Numbers Player Periods Scene Musician Music Is Notes Studios Mood Treasure Tides Bass Tempo Isle Bass Players Different Moods

Author:Alton Ellis

“Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.”

Periods Tales Costumes Adultery

Author:Mason Cooley

“During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.”

World Years Company Known Talent Periods Projects Research Collections Fifteen Participation Manhattan Fifteen Years Manhattan Project

Author:Frederick Reines

“I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.”

“We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.”

May Periods Civilization Intellectual Western Western Civilization

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Oak... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures... when exposed to moisture... it cannot take in liquid on account of its compactness, but, withdrawing from the moisture, it resists it and warps, thus making cracks.”

Lasts Periods Accounts Structure Cracks Buried Exposed Unlimited Liquid Oaks Warp Moisture Withdrawing

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.”

Ifs Love Dies Fall Periods Fruit Maturity Precise Neglected

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]”

People Kind Opportunity Periods Office British Decades Shattered Blair Missed Opportunity

Author:Menzies Campbell

“It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.”

Knows Years Periods Mathematics Notion Mathematician Vague Epoch

Author:Jean Dieudonne

“Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.”

Way Church Minutes Particular Periods Worship Twenties Lifestyle Connecting With God Christian Service Church Service

Book:After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You

Source: After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You

“I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16. And have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.”

Writing Ideas Age Wanted Dark Periods No Idea

Author:Margaret Atwood

“He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.”

Men Children Ends Eye Lying Periods Possession Sentences His Eyes Carrie Another Man Heirs Gravestone

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.”

Long I Can War America Remember Term Worst Periods Madness Historical Long Term Vietnam Pigs Vietnam War Mccarthyism Bay Of Pigs

Author:John le Carre

“The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments”

Done Interest Periods Cost Entrepreneur Investment Rate Alternatives Occupation Employing

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.”

Men Should Death Dies Periods Succeed Fixed Usual

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.”

Ifs Should Years Fall Next Seeing Higher Periods Reactions Investors Equity Sinking Sellers Buyers Stock Price Purchasers

Author:Warren Buffett

“There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.”

Periods Backwards

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.”

Looks Long Ends Chance Results Periods Taxes Bases Investing Fund Fees Long Periods Of Time Index Funds

Author:David F. Swensen

“Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.”

Ifs Want Giving Kind Persons Real Desire Vision Creative One Thing Periods Giving Up Investing Significant Accomplished Businessman Tunnels Creative Person Tunnel Vision

Author:Steve Jobs

“Our average holding period is four years.”

Years Values Four Periods Investing Average Four Years

Author:Walter Schloss

“Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.”

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