Quotes about years
years knowing apes
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. Sugata Mitra
years needs information
Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.
years knowing deep-within
I learned how to sumon, from somewhere deep within, the extra will I didn't know I possessed. Knowing it was there, and could be tapped again, gave me the boost of confidence I would rely on for years to come. Sugar Ray Leonard
years down-and littles
I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life. Studs Terkel
years three world
That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there. Story Musgrave
years car racing
Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. Stirling Moss
years growth environmental
Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. Stewart Brand
years extinction lasts
Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.
years goats reason
Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season. Stevie Smith
years civilization next
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years. Sonny Rollins
years crafts television
The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft. Steve Kanaly
years age nine
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. Steve Irwin
years dolphins tuna
And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.
years ipods long
The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist. Steve Jobs
years firsts lasts
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
years next-year lasts
iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
years two apples
Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
years apples people
At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
years apples eight
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.
years apples problem
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
years chess lasts
The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years. Viktor Korchnoi
years massachusetts born
I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old. Robert Goulet
years champion planes
Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
years people african-american
I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people. Robert Glasper
years gentleman return
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return. Robert Graves
years ignorant atheism
Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. Robert Green Ingersoll
years catholic atheism
Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.
years charity vicious
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. Samuel Johnson
years age important
It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry. Samantha Barks
years years-ago
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life. Samantha Bee
years gambling people
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
years opposites long
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long. Sam Walton
years ideas people
"Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making."