“I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.” NeedsLongJobsFacesStrongNationsChallengesIssuesSecurityInvolvedPeriodsTrainingAppreciateCrisisPreparedRadicalIslamicGovernorsNational SecurityExtremismMayorsChallenges We FaceBeirutLong RelationshipJob Training Author:John McCain
“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.” IfsKnowsGamesTechnologyPiecesPlayerInvolvedPeriodsDuesCoachesNbaTransitionSuperstitionsEquipmentAdjustmentNew Technology Author:Stu Jackson
“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.” MadeMotivationalSchoolNightStuffTalkingSunCreativeGroupsMiddleBuildingInvolvedPeriodsRoseListsI RealizedTricksClosestBe CreativeConnectingMiddle SchoolPicklesClosest Friends Author:Tony Hsieh
“If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.” IfsImportantBodyAmountInvolvedPeriodsSkillsCancerMedicalYour BodyConsiderationMaximumVitamins Author:Ernst T. Krebs
“What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.” IfsThinkingMenMadeEnoughMomentsTogetherPurposeJusticeMoralHistoryIssuesInvolvedPeriodsConscienceMarkAidsConfusionGreat MenMutualTrumpetsMoral IssuesMutual Aid Author:Jane Addams
“Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.” PeopleThinkingMenWellsHardShowsTvsInvolvedPeriodsRight ThingTv ShowsDoing The Right ThingBrainwash Author:Pauly Shore
“Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.” IfsWayNeedsYearsChildrenLostLevelsSupportForeverWifeInvolvedPeriodsOur ChildrenIntimatePrimitiveFatherhoodInvolvementCaretaking Author:Augustus Napier
“Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsLongImportantBookDifferentStoriesDreamHappensTogetherTurnsFictionSuccessfulOughtInvolvedPeriodsReflectionSticksCrucialMeasuringWriting FictionTimetables Author:Terry Brooks
“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.” IfsGivingChoicesIndividualPerfectResultsAudienceSubjectsListeningInvolvedPeriodsDramaTreatmentInstructionSympatheticFreedom Of ChoiceGreat Results Author:George P. Baker
“Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.” RomanceInvolvedPeriodsDrugAlcoholOne WomanDrugs And Alcohol Author:Burt Reynolds
“Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.” TryingFirstsBookStoriesAgeCertainSexStuffSituationInvolvedPeriodsGayMy FriendsFascinatingCowboySecrecy Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.” IfsPersonsCountryCommunityChurchRolesMillionsInvolvedPeriodsModelsInstitutionsMalesRole ModelsMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.” PeopleWayWantHas BeensBookSoulCountryStatesBlackCommunityViolenceInvolvedPeriodsVoteClintonSouthCastsI RealizedSpokesGangJerseyLatinoRidersNew JerseyOrganizerCaucusSacramentoNewarkGang Violence Author:Tom Hayden
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.” InvolvedPeriodsResponding Author:Stephen Mallinder
“I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life” StatesBlackStudentsInvolvedPeriodsActivityMembersUnionsExtraordinaryStrikesCommitteesSan FranciscoCampus Author:Danny Glover