“An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.” YearsFirstsThreeWonderVisionLordPrinciplesDoubtHappenedExampleTaughtCommunicationThings HappenProphetUnusualThree YearsTaught UsUnusual Things Author:Boyd K. Packer
“Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.” YearsHumansHardPlayWholeProblemSeemsActionWonderFocusEffectsBoundsPatternsInvisibleEndeavorIsolatedFabricSnapshots Author:Peter Senge
“I'm thrilled that Wonder Woman and that character endures because every actor wants a role that has some positive affect and causes people to smile or have good memories and to endure. It doesn't just go away, fade away. It's been 25 years that it's been off the air and so it still surprises me when younger people recognize me or know my work.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsStillsCharacterActorsCausesMemoriesWonderRolesAirSurpriseEndureGoing AwayFadesGood MemoriesFade AwaySurprise MeWonder Woman Author:Lynda Carter
“At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.” WorldYearsTwoStatesMightCareLastsLeaderWonderSacrificeResourcesMadDemocraticPatientMedicalAliensImmigrantsPushingIllegalLos AngelesReceivingApprovalLast YearTaxpayersLiverKidneysIllegal ImmigrantsUclaIllegal AliensTransplantsLimited ResourcesDemocratic Leaders Author:Michelle Malkin
“The most fully actualized people that I studied over ten years consistently pushed the envelope. These people consistently demanded far more of themselves every day than anyone else ever expected from them. These people raised their standards and committed themselves from their hearts to be the best they could be and to live a life of uncommon wonder. This is what self-mastery is all about.” PeopleYearsHeartSelfWonderTenStandardsRaisedCommittedExpectedBeing The BestMasteryConsistentlySelf MasteryUncommonEnvelopes Author:Robin Sharma
“Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.” ShouldYearsEndsStarsForgetWonderGoneOur LivesGloryLaughterWineEmbraceGrantedEncountersSunsetSuspectsCasualLove And FriendshipFood LoveFireplaces Author:Jack McDevitt
“For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsSometimesBigsLeftBrainWonderChangedPersonalityDamageSometimes I WonderFinishers Author:Michael Lesy
“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.” WantYearsFirstsArtIdeasEarthCan DoPayWonderPaintingExpressionGratitudeArt IsProductionsSeekingMakersEpiphanyFramedDensSouvenirsExpressions Of Love Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it seems like the technology will only get better, it seems like one might not ever need to settle down at all.” IfsNeedsYearsSeemsMightBornWonderTechnologyFemaleMalesSettlingGet BetterSettling Down Author:Eileen Myles
“Well, Japanese fans braced me since 1991 that was my first time I have been to Japan. So I know that Japanese fans has supported me over the years. So it just a lot of love and Wayne Wonder will release more music, more music and more music!” KnowsYearsFirstsWellsHas BeensWonderFansFirst TimeReleaseJapanWayne Author:Wayne Wonder
“Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.” WayYearsLooksTwoEyeThreeLeftHalfWonderMillionsFeetMinesYears AgoStandingLook UpAncestorFootprintStood Up Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.” IfsYearsWonderGoneHundred Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.” IfsYearsMindMadeLastsMovingLinesInterestingWonderChangedMachinesStuckVersesDeliberateTypewriters Author:Matthew Zapruder
“My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.” IfsTryingYearsLittlesI CanStoriesTogetherWonderDareDrawingInternalsContinents Author:Anthony Marra
“I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.” IfsWritingYearsArtSchoolLanguageNumbersWonderCreativeArt IsBackgroundsVisualsGraduatesCreative WritingPottersVisual ArtGraduate SchoolMateriality Author:Anna Journey
“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.” PeopleYearsLittlesSometimesRememberBitsWhiteWonderCoupleLittle BitNewsYears AgoStrikesBonnets Author:David Sedaris
“OK, so this pack - tax package includes about 50 tax breaks. None of them are new. They were all existing tax breaks. What this did was make them permanent. It gives some certainty for people when they're filing taxes that they don't have to wonder if Congress is going to renew them year after year.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsWonderBreakTaxesCongressCertaintyPermanentPacksPackagesFilingTax Breaks Author:Susan Davis
“Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.” YearsFirstsSaidWonderAvailableInventionBreadThey SaidTelegraphSliced Bread Author:Seth Godin
“Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.” ThinkingYearsLastsSoundDecisionWonderNew YorkPositionHonestlySettingSettingsLast YearJetBulgariaDown Time Author:Sean Mahon
“All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.” PeopleWritingYearsNextFeltWonderFourShouldersFour YearsBlocked Author:S. E. Hinton
“I was going through some stuff regarding my mom and dad. There was 30 years difference [between them], so when you hear the lyric, "Girl I love you / You know I do / And I do not doubt / That you love me too / But you're so young / Your life has just begun", that's what I was wondering. They were married for 44 years.” KnowsYearsYoungGirlStuffDifferencesWonderDoubtLove YouMomDadMarriedMy MomMom And Dad Author:Andy Kim
“After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.” IfsYearsStillsShowsLastsDecisionWonderDoubtMinutesFashionCreatingRight ThingCollectionsQuestioningLast MinuteFashion Show Author:Sonia Rykiel