Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.

Growing up increases your ability to focus on important things as well as increasing your ability to let go of unnecessary things with less…

— Terry Mark

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the…

— Vivek Wadhwa

Every fair from fair sometime declines

— William Shakespeare

I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered circulation declines,…

— Jeff Kinney

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from…

— Derek Sivers

Who does not grow, declines.

— Hillel the Elder

Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an…

— Brian Skerry

Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because…

— Seth Klarman

For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this…

— Norm Dicks

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

— Nick Murray

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts,…

— Brian Skerry

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a…

— George Clooney

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart…

— Markus Zusak

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees…

— James Cromwell

Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the…

— Alex Cox