Periods Quotes - Page 31

• The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Entrepreneur, Alternatives, Cost

  "The Theory of the Firm in the Last Ten Years". The American Economic Review, Volume 32, No. 4, p. 793, December 1942.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, Real, Tunnels

  25 Copy quote

• Our average holding period is four years.

  Walter Schloss

  Average, Years, Investing

  8 Copy quote

• It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.

  Merlin Stone

  Women, Cutting, Years

  8 Copy quote

• Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Age, Emotion

  8 Copy quote

• ... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Kindness, Hands, Yesterday

  4 Copy quote

• One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Bridges, Important, Fiction

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.136, University of Chicago Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Growth, Doe, Four

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Fernando J. Corbato, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 34, Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Writing, Independent, Numbers

  "Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications". Book by David E. Y. Sarna, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

  Vicki Baum

  Mistake, Men, Different

  Vicki Baum (1956). “Written on water: a novel”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.

  Laura Riding

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  5 Copy quote

• If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

  Corra May Harris

  Family, Home, Expression

  4 Copy quote

• It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Bullying, School, Miracle

  4 Copy quote

• At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Names, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Judging, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Robert Owen (1837). “First American from the third London edition”, p.76

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an
  impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Long, Fiction, Libertarian

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Passion, Confusion

  "Human Nature and Social Theory". Letter by Erich Fromm to Vladimir Dobrenkov, March 10, 1969.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

  Margaret Mead

  Stress, Next, Mature

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

  Margaret Sanger

  Vision, Quests, Obstacles

  7 Copy quote

• The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Years, Faces

  4 Copy quote

• Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

  Augustus Napier

  Children, Years, Wife

  4 Copy quote

• It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.

  Herbert Hainer

  Life, Sports, Giving Up

  9 Copy quote

• You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

  C. Wright Mills

  Issues, Historical, Trouble

  121 Copy quote