“I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.” PeopleWayYearsPoliticalUnderstandingPrinciplesStudyEconomicMonthsSixSpringEconomicsThirdsWesternCriticalGladPostsLiberalismGraduatesSix MonthsPursuedTextbooksHayekNaplesCzechoslovakiaDoctoratesPrague Author:Vaclav Klaus
“Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” PeopleKnowsYearsHeartEndsDoneJobsRememberFiveTeacherHeroSixTwentiesGood ThingsSatisfiedThirtyFortySuspects Author:Andy Rooney
“The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?” PeopleTodayAsksHalfPlanetsSixSpeciesBillionsAdaptationHomo SapiensRight Questions Author:Donald Johanson
“There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.” PeopleAbilityRoomsVisionFireGraceEmotionalInspireIntegrityElementsSixCriticalAuthenticityReputationFakeEmotional IntelligenceInspire OthersDecisivenessStellarGravitas Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett
“We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it. It was gratifying to see the people who embraced it immediately and understood it and got into it. They have tracked the characters through the six episodes, so it felt that now we can launch into the journey element of it. And really explore more of the Badlands.” PeopleWorldIdeasCharacterShowsFeltAudienceJourneyElementsSixUnderstoodAcceptedConfusedIntroducingEpisodes Author:Miles Millar
“I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that. For six episodes, it's hard to invest in people, and I think when you kill a main character on television it really needs to mean something. So we certainly had talked about that, and I think we managed to juggle the ball to make a gripping, interesting and compelling finale. We feel that we didn't have to go there at this point because we had such few episodes.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsTryingMeanMadeHardCharacterGamesInterestingTelevisionSixBallsKillingEpisodesCompellingThronesClicheAlways TryingGrippingMain CharactersTropesFinale Author:Miles Millar
“They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week to week people invite into their homes. It's a relationship that in success can go on six, seven, eight years. I think certainly in the early days, you definitely want that engagement.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsWarHomeUsedCoursesStarsWeekTelevisionGoes OnSixImpactSevenEightEngagementInvites Author:Alfred Gough
“I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.” PeopleHelpingHoursSleepExampleSixEightCoffeeSymptomsInattention Author:Marty Nemko
“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsChildrenStatesDoneRunningResultsInvolvedSixLegsReformSenateFoster ChildrenMinnesotaEducation Reform Author:Michele Bachmann
“People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways my sensibility is aligned with people twenty years older than me than somebody six years younger. Because there was a sort of cutoff.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsBrainGrewSixGrew UpTwentiesSensibility Author:Meghan Daum
“Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.” PeopleNeedsCountryFactsUsedMillionsWillingSixIsraelUsed To BeVotersIsraeliBipartisan Author:David Brooks
“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.” PeopleWritingYearsLongTwoEnoughWould BeJobsThreeReadingStuffWeekMaterialsInternetEasierSixLong TimeScaryI RealizedVersionsBoredDiariesLong Time AgoFunny ThingsHad Enough Author:Jason Mulgrew
“To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.” PeopleTwoEarthViewsSixBillionsRegister Author:James Toback
“I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.” PeopleWorldPartyConversationSixMy FavoriteDinnerMaxFavorites ThingsDinner Party Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.” PeopleThinkingHandsBigsGovernmentGrowthAbilityEconomySixIllusionChinaButtons Author:David Wessel
“We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.” PeopleStatesTodayAmericaUnitedNumbersUnited StatesJudgingSixPercentInstitutionsFinancialAssetsUnited States Of AmericaLegislationEconomistGdpAmerica TodayFinancial Institutions Author:Bernie Sanders
“The type of person that might thrive on Vine in a six-second clip might not be the same kind of entertainer who would shine on a 10-minute vlog on YouTube. If anything, having these different platforms gives more people a chance to creatively express themselves.” PeopleIfsGivingKindPersonsDifferentMightChanceMinutesTypeSixShiningThrivePlatformsYoutubeEntertainersVinesClipShine On Author:Tyler Oakley
“People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but you're really of no use. A lot of people get excited about guys like that but I can't get too excited about it because I think he's sorta useless. He's just sitting there in India under a blanket looking beautiful, so what.” PeopleThinkingGivingI CanUseBeautifulGuyHoursSixSittingIndiaExcitedUselessSandwichesBlanketLooking Beautiful Author:Brad Warner
“There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.” PeopleLongAttentionWeekLimitsSixDisappearTerritoryThank GodAttention SpanTime Limit Author:Sia Furler
“There are people that borrow $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they are suing him now. Thirty-six thousand dollars to go a university, that's a fake school.” PeopleSchoolTrumpThousandSixDollarsUniversityFakeThirtySuing Author:Marco Rubio
“I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.” PeopleTryingDoneHelpingHoursMy OwnNiceMonthsSixCome UpAlbumsStudiosHelping OthersSix MonthsHelping Other People Author:Beck
“Form a small group. Five or six people, of people who think the way you do, and are willing to meet regularly, every week, and you will be surprised at what imaginative, gutsy thought and action comes out of that synergy. Takes a while, but there's something that every little group like that can do.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesActionFormCan DoFiveGroupsWeekWillingSixImaginativeSmall GroupsThoughts And ActionsSynergy Author:Ray McGovern
“I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.” PeopleIfsYearsStillsThreeCommunitySixSevenSiteDevelopersContractorReddit Author:Alexis Ohanian
“I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?” PeopleShouldHoursSixGym Author:Ian Astbury
“I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.” PeopleHouseMy OwnLandFrontsFieldsDisciplineSixFarmersAcres Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!” PeopleWantFeelsRealWantedNightNextWaitingMorningMonthsSixClothesSix MonthsOne Night Author:Esteban Cortazar
“They [people] start asking themselves "Well which one is the best? Which one would be good for me?" And all those questions are much easier to ask if you're choosing from six than when you're choosing from 24 and if you look at the marketplace today most often we have a lot more than 24 of things to choose from.” PeopleIfsWellsLooksWould BeTodayAsksEasierSixAskingBe GoodMarketplace Author:Sheena Iyengar
“My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.” PeopleLanguageKnowingWifeSixArgumentTablesMy WifeLoudBizarre Author:Pete Wentz
“A while back there was this fad where a big star [would get] a producing credit and you'd ask around, and people were like, "No, they didn't produce, they just took the credit." I was flabbergasted. So when I started, people were weirded out by the fact that I was like, "How long is our prep? I'll come a week before that." They were like, "We're not shooting for six weeks."” PeopleLongFactsBigsAsksStarsWeekProduceSixCreditShootingFadsPreps Author:Charlize Theron
“If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end of the mining boom has led to an economic downturn in central Queensland, and that is why people in Capricornia, and elsewhere in central Queensland too, are so desperate for a government that will protect their jobs and create new opportunities for jobs in the future. And that is why [Malcolm] Turnbull government's message of jobs and growth and its six point economic plan is so important to them.” PeopleIfsImportantEndsGovernmentJobsOpportunityGrowthDoubtPlansEconomicProtectSixMessagesNo DoubtDesperateIf I CouldReportsElsewhereMiningNew OpportunityQueenslandDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:George Brandis
“One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".” PeopleStillsBookDoneReadingSoundOceanSixSake Author:David Toop
“Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.” PeopleHardHoursCreativeAliveInspireSkillsSixDaughterAthleteMy DaughterGymnasticsCreative PeopleGymnast Author:Nathan East
“You know how most people think that eggs are great sources of protein? Well, you only get about six grams from an egg, and about half of that is in the yolk and the other half is in the white. If instead you opt for a cup of lentils, you get a whopping eighteen grams of protein, plus all that fiber that makes you feel full and cleans out your body!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsWellsBodyWhiteHalfKnow HowSourceSixYour BodyCupsEggsPlusEighteenOther HalfProteinFiberLentils Author:Kathy Freston
“You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.” PeopleYearsSchoolLawPracticeStreetsMonthsAmountProtectSixTrainingGunEightLawyerInsaneIronCopGoing OutSix Months Author:Colin Kaepernick
“It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."” PeopleTryingKindSaidHelpingKidsRememberHeardBandSixLateWake UpHearingHeyTapeFadsComaFavorite BandsHearing Things Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.” PeopleThinkingCountryStatesWishUnitedViewsUnited StatesPerspectiveMonthsSixSix MonthsNew Perspective Author:Jesse Ventura
“One thing that Americans do at this time also, though, is let's commit ourselves, just everyday American people Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation I think we need to band together and say, never again. Never will we exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTogetherNationsTakenOne ThingMomBandSixAdvantageDollarsEverydayCommitHockeyPacksTaken AdvantageSix PacksHockey Mom Author:Sarah Palin
“The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.” PeopleWayMayLongBookProblemAbleSchoolReadingEasyEffortWorryWonderfulWeekCollegeSixPagesHigh SchoolGraduatesJoyceUlyssesSeminars Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.” PeopleIfsMeanWould BeCertainFeetKingsMetsSixTallBitesAggressiveBite MeCertain DeathCobras Author:David Attenborough
“We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsMindLooksHas BeensMatterNumbersPovertyMillionsTakenHappenedSixBenefitsDrawsMovedRateAround The WorldGrantedChineseCentsGlobalizationMind Boggling Author:Christine Lagarde
“I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.” PeopleThinkingBelieveTurnsGroupsSixCriticalCollectivesCollective Wisdom Author:Lewis Schiff
“I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.” PeopleYearsHas BeensDoneMightLastsCoursesAsksMillionsFiveHappenedSixPresidency Author:Barack Obama
“I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!” PeopleWritingFirstsLooksPersonsStillsDifferentStuffTalkingIssuesMonthsHonorSixLegacyShadeSix MonthsDoomReally Cool Author:Gerard Way
“There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.” PeopleThinkingWritingFiveSixUniqueGapsPerformersPythonMonty Author:Eric Idle
“I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement - every time I make it, I can see people just kind of - it's just one of those light bulb moments.” PeopleYearsKindI CanMomentsLightSixTrainingSevenStatementsJust OneConferencesSeven YearsLeadership TrainingBulbsLight Bulb Author:John C. Maxwell
“When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and I'd definitely never traveled alone like that. I just had such a great time meeting people. I had such a great time seeing new cultures and different ways that people think and different ways that they live and different ways that they see the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayDifferentDoneCultureFiveSeeingWeekSixEuropeTwentiesMeetingsDifferent WaysTraveledGreat TimesTwenty FiveNew Cultures Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsBookLastsThreeSixDiedSevenLike MeThree YearsCountyEpidemicsHeroinDealing With ItOverdoseAggravating Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsWellsEndsHandsLanguageClearChildhoodSkillsSixComputerMathLawyerWay Of ThinkingElementalsSix Year OldsSpatial Author:Robert Greene
“Mind you, I live in an area of Atlanta that is nearly 88% black. But in six days in and around Melbourne, I saw maybe three people of African origin and maybe one easily identifiable Australian aborigine.” PeopleMindThreeBlackSawsSixAreasAustralianAtlantaMelbourne Author:Jim Goad
“I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLastsLinesSpaceOne ThingDangerSixPrisonWestJournalistIranIranian Author:Akbar Ganji