Duration And Capacity Quotes

#1. You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

Ian Hislop

#2. If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

Sendhil Mullainathan

#3. People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.

Justin Trudeau

#4. Long ago I had become my own confidant.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#5. I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

Freddie Prinze

#6. Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

James Whistler

#7. I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

Alexander McQueen

#8. Facebook is a platform inside a platform.

Yuri Milner

#9. The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.

W. Edwards Deming

#11. I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.

Cody Horn

#12. There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

Mark Simpson

#13. The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that we possess in the non physical worlds down into a more limited capacity for the duration of our mortal lives.

Eben Alexander