Periods Quotes - Page 35

• We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

  Kevin O'Leary

  Exercise, Long, Brain

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• Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Live Life, Sadness, Opportunity

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• Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

  Pat Robertson

  "As Iraq Toll Hits 4000 — Bush Sees a 'Comma'” by Greg Mitchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2008.

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• Large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst investments after long periods of winning.

  William Eckhardt

  Loss, Winning, Emotional

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• In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Ideas, Years, Long

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• The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Father, Opportunity

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• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Strong, People

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• As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

  Emma Watson

  Running, Opportunity, Thinking

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• In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

  Charles Babbage

  Artist, Profound, Age

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Technology, Roots

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• 'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.

  Dave Douglas

  Running, Artist, Player

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• We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

  Alistair Darling

  Doors, World, Electricity

  "Alistair Darling: We were two hours from the cashpoints running dry", www.independent.co.uk. March 18, 2011.

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

  Peter Warlock

  Yesterday, Musical, Today

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• We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.370, Vintage

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• There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

  Gerry Rafferty

  Song, Writing, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Winning, Games

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• Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

  Alex Katz

  Long, Effort, Looks

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• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Government, Should Have

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.36, Penguin

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• I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

  George Orwell

  Years, Opposites, Civilization

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

  George Orwell

  Strange, Revolutionary, Patriot

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

  Aristotle

  Taken, May, Speech

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.12, Aeterna Press

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• The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped in debt, if they once fall into bankruptcy. The reason that the law was changed in American history - the whole early period of the formation of the country was moving away from British law into a law that is generated here and that conforms to the sense of what is appropriate here.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Country, Moving, Fall

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• I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Book, Reading, Italian

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• When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point.

  Alex Kendrick

  Pain, Volunteer, Church

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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