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distance phones interesting
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting. Bill Bryson
distance home average
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day. Bill Bryson
distance two feet
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret. Bill Bryson
distance technology creating
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. Beth Simone Noveck
distance mean reality
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality. Bill Vaughan
distance helped massively miles running time
That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance. Cody Irwin
distance great huge supposed win
That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day. Dave Sellon
distance executing expanding extremely future growth markets position
We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas, Ivan Seidenberg
distance gained gradually open return rock
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools. Raymond Bonner
achievement admiration colleagues david earned highest investment matched office past performance possible praise record time year
The outstanding performance by the Investments Office in the past year has matched a record of achievement over time that has earned (Chief Investment Officer) David Swensen and his colleagues the highest possible praise and admiration from their peers, Richard LeVine
achievement courage essential foundation true
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Nicholas M. Butler
achievement challenges growing
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid. Cecelia Ahern
achievement able essentials
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. Bertrand Russell
achievement aim candid chances complete efforts face futile highest man towards true
The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie Walter Pater
achievement speak
The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently. Marc Abrahams
achievement act award civil founded high originally parallel program rights school smaller
The Achievement Scholarship Award was originally founded during the 1960s Civil Rights Act and is specifically for African-American high school students. It's a much smaller program but operates in a very parallel way. Gloria Davis
achievement assured commit commitment goal moment
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. Mack Douglas
achievement additional degree employment full inflation reasonably require
The achievement of a reasonably full degree of employment without accelerating inflation will require development of some additional tool. William Vickrey
population recall school
If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300. Ernie Carson
population republican goodness
Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population. David Price
population conservation policy
You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy. David R. Brower
population potential proportion social
The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school. John Williamson
population potential proportion social
The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school. John Williamson
population
There is no population in there. It's deserted. E. O. Wilson
population climate problem
I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward. Bill McKibben
population-problem people focus
People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem! Jared Diamond
population serious thinker
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. Alan Lightman