Quotes with time-scale

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2742.

  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Brock Lesnar Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Carol Bartz Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Still may syllabes jar with time,
    Still may reason war with rhyme,
    Resting never!
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Greg Anderson Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Joan Didion Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Baba Kalyani Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob McDonnell Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Donald Trump Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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  • Bob Dylan Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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