Quotes About Short Periods Of Time

#1. Primarily, that means learning to recognize thoughts as thoughts - as transient appearances in consciousness - and to no longer be distracted by them, if only for short periods of time.

Sam Harris

#2. I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

Anne Lamott

#3. Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.

Raymond L. Atkins

#4. One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

John Diefenbaker

#5. Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

Edward Hall

#6. The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi.

Harshit Walia

#7. The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Toni Morrison

#8. You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

Yves Behar

#9. Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

Seneca The Younger

#10. In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#11. I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.

Yoweri Museveni

#12. Trust her; we girls are two sheets short of psycho when it comes to our special little time.

Sandi Lynn

#13. You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very short period of time. What you can't afford to do is throw away your capital on suboptimal trades.

Richard Dennis

#14. The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

Aaron Klug

#15. Man naturally yearns for novelty.

Pliny The Elder

#16. I watch, nearly shaking with the need to say something and having nothing to say, as she lets a flame incinerate the precious paper to a dusting of ash on the floor.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#17. The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

Behati Prinsloo

#18. Be friends of everyone. Be enemies of no-one

Charles Wesley

#19. Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.

Robert Scoble

#20. Family is becoming more and more important to me.

Diane Kruger

#21. Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to lean in a short period of time.

Eric Bana

#22. conformed to the principle of least action, a foundation of physics that holds that light or any object moving between two points should follow the easiest path.3 Planck's paper not only contributed to the development of relativity theory; it also helped to legitimize it among other physicists.

Walter Isaacson

#23. Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

William Faulkner

#24. The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

Hannah Arendt

#25. I mean, certainly, not everyone sucks in the same way, and not everyone sucks equally, but everyone sucks at least a little.

David Levithan

#26. Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.

Rick Perlstein

#27. Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

Nir Eyal