“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.” YearsWellsIdeasEnoughTimeResultsPayFiveGreaterFeetSourceInvolvedThousandResourcesYears AgoInvestmentDeeperSurfaceOilOperationsMore TimeTexasNatural Resources Author:Alfred Armand Montapert
“Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There's very little spent on prevention and treatment. There's a lot on policing, a ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations. And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug prices don't change on measures of availability. So there are two possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or they have another purpose.” WayYearsLooksLittlesTwoWarCountryPastPurposeStuffEffectsPossibilityDrugYears AgoOperationsBordersTreatmentOver The PastDon't ChangeWar On DrugsPreventionConductingAvailabilityBorder Control Author:Noam Chomsky
“The State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we've figured out the State Department is improperly giving government documents to the Clinton operation - documents that should have been turned over to us years ago.” GivingShouldYearsHas BeensStatesGovernmentRecordsYears AgoShould HaveClintonOperationsDepartmentRemoveDocumentsEmailShould Have Been Author:Tom Fitton
“Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.” PeopleWantYearsMindFactsGovernmentThreeMillionsPlansCostProjectsYears AgoOperationsRetirementThree YearsHealthcareTaxpayersVisitorsWashington Dc Author:Neal Boortz
“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.” KnowsYearsTwoReasonFoundSoundRoomsBloodLowsYears AgoIntentionSilentNervousOperationsFortyExplorationExpectingChamberVibrationsHarvardNervous SystemCirculationLife Direction Author:John Cage
“And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.” YearsResultsCompanyPositiveYears AgoStandingEmptyImpactRecoveryOperationsFactoriesLoanPositive Impact Author:Barack Obama
“Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.” IfsThinkingYearsHeartKindSufferingFeltDangerSeriousTenOrdinaryYears AgoCancerScaredFearlessOperationsScarePhasesExhaustedSuicidalSpeculationDipHeart Attack Book:Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life Source: Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life
“Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.” YearsMadeUsePastScienceKnownProgressYears AgoMedicineOperationsFiftyExecution Author:Mark Twain
“I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.” YearsBrainMusicFameMusicianDeserveYears AgoOperationsHallsAwardsFifteenSongwritersFifteen YearsHall Of Fame Author:Quincy Jones