Quotes about years
years cities littles
My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche. Steve Aoki
years water today
Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage. Steve Allen
years year-end idiot
Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it. Steve Albini
years worry desire
I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry. Stephen Dunn
years church
It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
years guy generations
I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys. I always wanted to be around adults when I was young. Stephen Dorff
years discovery found
When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Thomas Merton
years three would-be
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. Thomas Carlyle
years treasure found
Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows. Tony Levin
years car people
Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole]. Tony Kornheiser
years important half
The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. Tony Juniper
years stuff-happens rewards
If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens. Tony Hsieh
years numbers advice
My advice is to stop trying to "network" in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you'll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendship later down the road. You won't know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2-3 years later down the road.
years odd made
I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies. Tony Curtis
years years-ago ten
How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself? Tony Earley
years four bucks
I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide. Tommy Rettig
years done littles
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well Tommy Kirk
years style proud
If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the style more relevant for them next year? Tommy Hilfiger
years giving lasts
Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.
years numbers pieces
I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them. Tom Wolfe
years america people
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.
years rays jukebox
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. Tom Waits
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.