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“Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.”

Jobs Individual Loses Needed Habit Periods Skills

Author:Janet Yellen

“I've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better.”

Years Littles Able Turns Bits Couple Periods Little Bit Hopefully

Author:Lydia Ko

“I would not want to live in any other period.”

Want Periods

Book:Billy Graham in Quotes

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.”

Made Decision Periods Music Business

Author:Ja Rule

“I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.”

Thinking Way Want Art Said Done Might Would Be Artist Certain Periods Art Is Males Feminist Reactions Protest Strongest Categories Usual Considering Privileged Arena Indignation Convoluted

Author:Nancy Spero

“There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.”

Childhood Periods

Author:Edward Hoagland

“Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.”

Wells Periods Intense

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.”

Ifs Want Political Periods Members Ministers Prime Entering Prime Minister Arena

Author:Ami Ayalon

“I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.”

Emotion Periods Drama Rage

Author:Jenna Coleman

“From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.”

Should Whole Study Progress Effects Students Ought Periods Disease Observation Witness Sickness Persevere Commencement

Author:Robert James Graves

“My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.”

Ifs Years Long Has Beens Ideas Bigs Process Differences Loss Periods Long Time Losing Weight Compare Weight Loss

Author:Ray William Johnson

“I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.”

Thinking Men Happens Can Do White Periods Photography Discovery Photographer Heat

Author:Walker Evans

“The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now”

Made Waiting Christianity Periods Easier Intellectual Patient Marvelous Standpoint

Author:Wilfred Grenfell

“If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.”

Ifs Long Stills Moving Periods Sitting Boring Monotony Long Periods Of Time Sitting Still Constantly Moving

Author:Amy Seimetz

“About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.”

World Years Heart Growth Millions Issues Periods Demand China Oil Around The World Developing Gas Consumption Crude Barrels Crude Oil Oil Consumption

Author:John S. Watson

“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”

Government Economy Periods Depression Privacy Inherent Severe Unemployment Great Depression Instability Mismanagement

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.”

Wells Littles War Country Wanted Pieces Periods Posts Germany Little Time Post War

Author:Stephen Daldry

“Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.”

Opportunity Happened Periods Strategy Calm Investors Marketplace

Author:Richard Grasso

“I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.”

Ifs Knows Games Technology Pieces Player Involved Periods Dues Coaches Nba Transition Superstitions Equipment Adjustment New Technology

Author:Stu Jackson

“Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.”

Long Economy Periods Organization Ethical Inherent Long Periods Of Time

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.”

I Can Age Deals Periods Tough

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.”

World Culture Periods Obvious World Love African Culture

Author:Hugh Masekela

“It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.”

Reality Would Be Worry Too Much Subjects Periods Daily Life Wisest Instill

Author:Andre Gide

“It's called the Santa Claus effect; the holiday period is traditionally a strong cycle.”

Strong Effects Periods Holiday Cycles Santa Santa Claus

Author:Andrew Barrett

“Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.”

Difficult Periods Letting Go Exciting Patterns Paradox Frightening Exhilarating

Book:The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem

Source: The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem

“Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.”

Earth Happiness Spirit Periods Discovery Roots Plant Enjoyed Substitutes Admirable

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown of a long and fruitful period, whereas the discovery which comes as a puzzle and surprise usually marks a fresh epoch and opens a new chapter in science.”

Long Has Beens Science Interest Theory Periods Discovery Importance Mark Surprise Profound Chapters Crowns Puzzles Epoch

Author:Oliver Lodge

“Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.”

World Long Stills Seems Earth Science Theory Periods Soldier Terror Wide Boredom Phenomenon Plates Modus Operandi

Author:D. V. Ager

“I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.”

Believe I Believe Crime Periods Ultimate Violent Penalties Death Penalty Deterrent Violent Crimes

Author:Troy King

“When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.”

People Writing Years Christian Speak Land Periods Jew Eras Centre Autonomous Birthplace

Book:The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

Source: The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

“You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are transported! You're not just shown pictures, not even 3-D pictures, not even movies, but suddenly you are transported live by a time machine to that very time, that very age and you see it happen, you watch it happen, you hear it happen, you feel it happen! Think of it! Not only the movies but the 'feelies'! You are there!”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Happens Age Certain Watches Happened Building Periods Machines Heavenly Live By Time Machine

Author:David Berg

“In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.”

Stage Periods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.”

World Long Moving Meditation Stage Awareness This World Periods Long Periods Of Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.”

Moving Meditation Periods Exercise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.”

Feels Years Whole Feelings Four Player Periods Guitar Four Years Songwriters Representation Guitar Player

Author:John Frusciante

“How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?”

Source: The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition

“Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.”

Giving Mind Buddhism Periods Mindfulness Infinite Access Clarity Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.”

Mind Stills Night Meditation Buddhism Periods Mindfulness Gains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.”

Mean Energy Type Periods Projects Karma Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Amount Periods Lifetime Saint Karma Lovely State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.”

People Way Said Sleep Wife Son Months Periods Wake Up Seven Eight My Wife Upset Online My Son Untrue Hurtful Up Early

Author:David Plotz

“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Thinking Knows Wells Long Mother Pay Attention Careers Focus Periods Intense Long Periods Of Time Professional Career

Author:David Plotz

“Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.”

World War Ends Found Growing Up Growing Cold Periods Nuclear Hopeful Holocaust Cold War

Author:George Clooney

“For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America”

People Years Has Beens America Hours Class Millions Technology Middle Huge Periods Percent Increase Dollars Disappear Productivity Despite Middle Class Massive Wages Transfers

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.”

Thinking Knows Important Country Able Support Security Figures Periods Posts Borders September September 11th

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.”

People Thinking Periods Drama Simpler Times

Author:Jeremy Piven

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.”

Littles Government Certain Common Periods Distance Locals Seats Satire Rome Verses Strife Petty Factions Satirical Animosity Coarse

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.”

Wells Has Beens Soul Hard Genius Hero Periods Ambition Saint Your Soul Captains

Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?”

Age Past Saws Periods Prejudice Old Age Peculiar Present Time

Author:Michel de Montaigne

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