Years Quotes
Let's call them years of a friendly misalliance.
Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.
My father, at the Death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up literally without education.
The battle beginning today will decide the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years.
For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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