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past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past. Anita Brookner
past people digital-marketing
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. Clay Shirky
past data make-sense
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past? Clayton Christensen
past leader risk
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.
past illusion ability
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman
past progress get-better
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
past ideas ease
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
past intuition
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
ideas people important
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering
ideas common-sense reform
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon
ideas people inspire
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like. Dwayne Johnson
ideas quality levels
The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in, just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.
ideas brainless
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. Colin Wilson
ideas philadelphia america
The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
ideas risk conservative
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine. Claudia Schiffer
ideas soul quality
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas. Claude Brown
ideas long intellectual
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough. Claude Bernard