“Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.” LyingChallengesCourageKnowingSpringTwentiesFiftyNot KnowingFearlessness Author:Kathleen Turner
“From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.” WritingKnowingFeetCenturyTwentiesDustQueensDrySandBuriedContemplatingFleetingInkPyramidsEgyptianFleeting Life Author:Rachel
“A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.” IfsNeedsShouldYearsChildrenLongImportantMatterForeverKnowingFiveTwentiesOneselfFive YearsTwenty FiveDelayedKnowing Everything Author:Laura Riding
“It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.” TryingYearsTwoHardMotherFoundFatherParentGrowing UpKnowingGrowingTwentiesTwo YearsGet BackNot KnowingReconcileHard ThingsTwenty Two Author:Michael Franti
“I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.” PeopleThinkingKindHelpingCultureViewsKnowingSuccessfulTwentiesSeekingI've LearnedBeing SuccessfulRootedConnectingVisibility Author:Mike Birbiglia
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.” IfsYearsMomentsStoriesFeelingsDreamBodySleepKnowingTwentiesSentencesPlotLives Of OthersHeaviness Author:Michael Ondaatje
“I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.” ChildrenSilenceKnowingMinutesArmsHundredRedWindowTwentiesGlassesTinyOddKneesHallsCurtainsCrowdedVelvetOnly Child Book:Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You
“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.” YearsTwoLyingDiesKnowingHundredTwentiesSafetyDeceitSheepFenceCagesTwenty TwoKnowing The Truth Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series
“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayTryingUseBigsTodayUsedValuesMillionsTechnologyGoneKnowingBuildingInternetTenComputerMassHundredTwentiesCornersCustomersDrivenStoresFulfillmentCommerceNew WaysPioneersAmazonDatabasesComputer TechnologyPersonalizedMerchandising Author:Andy Grove
“Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.” KnowsLifeNeedsKindUseWisdomSpiritualTimeHoursSleepQualityKnowledgeKnowingLearningWiseFourMeditationParticularWise WordsRootsTwentiesMedicineWordsSpreadIndianOver YouDo You KnowDeep ThoughtAttainmentWise Man Once SaidLife Learning Author:Rajneesh
“Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.” PeopleYearsFeelingsTodayFictionKnowingFiveEffectsYears AgoTwentiesScience FictionClimateClimate ChangeExcuseFive YearsNot KnowingTwenty FiveNo Excuses Author:Desmond Tutu
“There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence.” ThinkingWayShouldMeanImportantIdeasStatesHandsWould BeFacesUnitedOpinionPrinciplesMillionsUnited StatesKnowingFiveSubjectsOughtPromiseSucceedTwentiesFundamentalsDollarsCongressContraryBudgetsEngagementLegislationPrudenceHand In HandTwenty FiveFundamental PrinciplesAppropriationDebt By Founding Fathers Author:James Madison