Lifetime Quotes - Page 27

• Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

  Gerry Lindgren

  Evil, Payback, Life Is

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It's so full that I can't really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.

  Dave McKean

  Tired, Sound And Music, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

  Henry Rollins

  Done, Way, Violence

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

  Julia Stiles

  Bases, Day To Day

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

  George Soros

  Intention, Originals

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

  Samuel Butler

  Failure, Adversity, Men

  'The Way of All Flesh' (1903) ch. 5

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• Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.

  Ted Turner

  Success, Mistake, Hard Times

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.

  Seth

  Attention, Mouths, Easier

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• On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.

  John McPhee

  Thinking, Islands, Race

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• I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

  Trey Anastasio

  Lucky, Collaborators

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• Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

  Gene Fowler

  Decision, Mind, Firsts

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• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Knowing your 'action' style could lead to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2008.

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• Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

  John Bingham

  Dedication, Needs, Might

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.101, Rodale

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• One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

  Robert Morgan

  Powerful, Talking, Use

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• I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

  Eric Morecambe

  Regret, Thinking, Echoes

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• No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Artist, Years

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

  Ted Turner

  Goal, Setting Goals

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

  Sam Harris

  Elude Us, Understanding, Depth

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.

  Thomas Lynch

  Hate, Moving, Unpacking

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• Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.

  Kate Winslet

  Opportunity, Play, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because you think about who is the most positive, who's the most redemptive songwriter that's ever existed in your lifetime?

  Glen Hansard

  Thinking, Class, Issues

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.

  David McCullough

  War, Inspiration, September 11

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Animal, Sometimes, Live In The Present

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• A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

  Steve McConnell

  Mistake, Opportunity, People

  Steve McConnell (1996). “Rapid Development”, p.29, Microsoft Press

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• Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Southern, Childhood, Lasts

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