“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.” YearsAgeFivePeriodsBattleConsequenceUltimateFive YearsHelpfulSixtyContinuingColleaguesSeventiesPersuadingQualifyingUltimate Success Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.” PeopleThinkingYearsLittlesSelfTogetherLastsPoliticalSongHalfFiveWrittenPeriodsFitDecadesFive YearsSnapshotsSelf Contained Author:Conor Oberst
“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.” ShouldYearsLooksTwoAgeHateEducationFiveYouthPeriodsTwentiesSevenVicesFollowingStrangerPursuitFive YearsDividedHereafterPassed AwayPuberty Book:Politics Source: Politics
“In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.” YearsWonderFiveTelevisionTvsPeriodsMy FriendsExcitingStuckHatedThirtyFive YearsResearchersExciting Things Author:Mary Harron
“The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.” YearsHas BeensPastCompanyFivePeriodsFive YearsEarningDeficitProfitable Author:Peter Cundill
“The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.” KnowsWayWritingYearsFirstsVoiceWhiteKnow HowFivePeriodsPaperMissionsMy WayFive YearsBagsRemarkableDensePaper BagsWhite Paper Author:Richard Meltzer
“I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.” YearsFirstsTwoIdeasCoursesEasyActingFivePeriodsNormalHotNo IdeaFive YearsUnemploymentUps & Downs Author:David Krumholtz
“After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.” YearsHardCreativeFiveDevelopmentInternetPeriodsThirtyFive YearsDomain1960sPublic Domain Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is to look at your capabilities and look at your performance and examine the percentage of revenue that comes from products that are less than five years old, less than three years old and that are current with the present accounting period. You can then compare those figures to those of your competition along the same axes.” WayYearsLooksThreeCreativityFiveFiguresProductsPeriodsPerformancesCompetitionCurrentsObviousOne WayCompareFive YearsThree YearsCapabilityRevenuePercentagesAccountingFive Year OldsAxesThree Year Olds Author:John Kao
“I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back and gathering my strength. That time also included incredible cocaine abuse, a heart attack and my wife's recovery from both alcoholism and cocaine abuse.” YearsHeartFiveWifePeriodsAbuseIncrediblesMy WifeRecoveryBreathingFive YearsSpellsGatheringAlcoholismCocaineHeart Attack Author:George Carlin
“I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.” ThinkingYearsBigsSeemsFiveFourPeriodsCapableRadicalPerceiveFive YearsBig ChangesRadical Change Author:Philip Glass
“The next film I have is called Miles Ahead, which is about Miles Davis, during a five-year period in his life during which he's struggling to figure out which direction to go musically and in his life. I play a record executive who's there to try to get Miles to collaborate with one of my clients. I'm excited to see that.” TryingYearsPlayFilmNextStruggleRecordsFiveFiguresPeriodsExcitedMilesFive YearsExecutivesClients Author:Michael Stuhlbarg