“Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.” IfsYearsLooksWholeCoursesActorsBalancePeriodsBalancedWhole YearDown Time Author:Elaine Cassidy
“I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.” YearsWholeFocusPeriodsBandProjectsLateYears AgoMy FavoriteVersionsHolidayDebutBrussels Author:Jose James
“Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsLongFilmUsedFivePeriodsHarry PotterPottersExhausting Author:John Hurt
“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
“When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are seeking to transform your enterprise's portfolio by scaling a fledgling business to material size - say ten percent of total enterprise revenue - then it is imperative that you make that the singular focus of everyone in the enterprise for the two to three year period it is likely to require to reach its tipping point. Expecting to do two such scaling efforts in parallel is simply folly, yet that is what the "eggs/basket" idea is often used to justify.” YearsTwoIdeasUsedThreeEffortFocusAdviceMaterialsPeriodsTenPercentVery GoodSizeSeekingFollyEnterpriseJustifyEggsThree YearsExpectingNew IdeasRevenueParallelsImperativesBasketsGood AdvicePortfoliosTippingTipping PointEggs In One BasketFledglings Author:Geoffrey Moore
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson
“You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.” WantYearsStillsI CanSelfJobsNightSongNiceWonderfulParticularPeriodsPicksExtrasWonderful ThingsResonanceOld Self Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Years of research show us that the less control a person feels over an aversive stimuli coming at them, the more likely they are to disengage. Complete loss of control over a sustained period of time can actually lead to depression. It then follows that giving the person a level of control over the situation reduce the stress - and perhaps restore the disengagement.” GivingFeelsYearsPersonsShowsLossLevelsSituationPeriodsResearchStressStimulusDisengagement Author:John Medina
“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
“I think comedy in the last 5-7 years is as good as it's ever been in America. I like it when people push it. You go through periods where people did not push the envelope. The more you push it, the funnier you get.” PeopleThinkingYearsLastsAmericaComedyPeriodsEnvelopes Author:Peter Farrelly
“A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.” IfsYearsFirstsLooksRealDoneLastsBehindsGoneFiveFourPeriodsDegreesPercentIncreaseClimateStormWeatherGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCo2Bad Weather Author:Charles Koch
“Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.” ThinkingYearsLongPeriodsLong TimeContemporaryFiftyThinkerRelevanceTime To Think Author:Nigel Gibson
“Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.” YearsMillionsPeriodsPrisonPopulationThirtyJailThirty YearsPrison Population Author:Michelle Alexander