Quotes about years
years stones layers
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives. Steven Erikson
years sea focus
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30. Steve Odland
years ideas comedy
With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good. Steve Martin
years criticism remember
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.
years four comedy
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
years creating issues
Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.
years car waiting
I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll never forget: 'ALWAYS...' no, wait-- 'NEVER...' no, wait, it was 'ALWAYS carry a litter bag in your car. It doesn't take up much room, and if it gets full, you can toss it out the window.'
years way casts
I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. Steve Buscemi
years ideas hands
Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets. Steve Ballmer
years ideas people
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
years lasts profit
We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.
years growth pipeline
I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.
years two clouds
When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the company is absolutely the No. 1 company serving enterprise backbone needs, which is fantastic. It's making the migration to cloud. We started a good thing with Azure, and the company has made well more than two years of progress in terms of being able to compete with the right cost profile, margin structure, and innovation versus Amazon.
years marketing might
Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.
years numbers issues
My wife spent a lot of time on what we do from a civic contribution giving perspective, for a number of years, I've really joined her in that. We're focused on issues in the United States, particularly issues with people who have been trapped in neighborhoods in what I might call intergenerational poverty.
years way six
Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be. Steve Carell
years race world
In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years? Stephen Hawking
years lasts population
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.
years two half
Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.
years use appreciated
Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.
years space progress
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.
years two neurons
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
years noses ten
If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.
years two doctors
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
years roger disaster
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
years law done
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick. Stephan Pastis
years
I've spent several years now with my head down Stephan Jenkins
years style nobility
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Stendhal
years organization people
After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around. Stanley Bing
years judgement lasts
No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made. Stanley Baldwin
years atheism prison
How many prison years in the years since Christ! Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
years world upside-down
The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it. Spider Robinson
years iron feet
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. Spike Milligan