Timescale Quotes

#1. Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon

#3. What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

Theresa May

#4. Our primate ancestors was the development of a larger cerebral cortex as well as the development of increased volume of gray-matter tissue in certain regions of the brain.32 This change occurred, however, on the very slow timescale of biological evolution and still involves an inherent

Ray Kurzweil

#5. We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Douglas Alexander

#6. Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

Naval Ravikant

#7. In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources.

Yoshikazu Tanaka

#8. That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.

Jon Ronson

#9. Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Billy Corgan

#10. That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

Plato

#11. I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.

Jen McGowan

#12. The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We're lucky to be living now.

Gustave Flaubert

#13. Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

William Shakespeare

#14. You were prepositioned on this planet. But you weren't predestined. A clarification of your life purpose will lead you to set your goals, achieve your dreams and reach your destination.

Keerthi Singhe

#15. The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.

Aunjanue Ellis

#16. They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.

Scarlett Johansson

#17. As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future.

Marcel Proust

#18. London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

Oscar Wilde