“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.” IfsYearsFactsFallGainsAdvantageEmptyPaidTwentiesErrorsCarefulCraftsRecallsCoinsBoastEldersPursesResentArtisansYears Of ExperienceRedundancy Author:Trevanian
“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.” PeopleIfsWritingMotivationalWatchesAlivePlayerFieldsThousandPaidTwentiesChosenInstructionTrappedSpectatorsEightyEdits Author:Seth Godin
“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.” WholeUseMovingFourHappenedHundredStonesPaidTwentiesOriginalsDollarsDrawingTreasureAgentsDamnConvinceSixtyFifteenRollingRolling StonesRue Author:Ralph Steadman
“Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.” IfsSpeakDifficultFemalePaidTwentiesDifficult TimesFemale Friends Author:Miranda Hart
“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.” IfsMenYearsStillsWholeLastsReligiousCasesHe ManCoupleEasierCatPaidTwentiesMethodKingdomsFiftyPriestsEvidentEgyptVenerationPropagation Book:A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition
“One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.” PeopleWayYearsTwoAmericaFivePoetThousandHundredYears AgoPaidTwentiesDollarsSurpriseHearingBitterFive YearsNeglectedHarvardTwenty FiveDelivering Author:Stephen Spender
“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.” MenGivingHeartTwoUseGivenWiseHeardPaidTwentiesEndlessPlentyVainFancyPoundsCrownsPearlsSighBosomsTalk To MeLadRubiesGuineaRue Author:A. E. Housman
“but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.” ThinkingNeedsYearsHas BeensKidsNextSpecialNew YorkBirthPaidTwentiesEducationalArguingStuckPlentyExpertsTanksAnklesConsultantsSpecial NeedsSnapping Author:Meg Rosoff
“To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.” MenTwoWatchesPaperBallsPaidTwentiesWoodsSoccerKicksInkViolinSoccer PlayerTwenty TwoSoccer FootballMotivational SoccerSoccer Is My LifeSoccer Ball Author:J. B. Priestley
“People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMadeHandsBrokenArmsPaidTwentiesDuesNineMade ItFourteen Author:Larry Holmes