Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it,… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time, but in the great rapids and the winding shallows, no… — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the… — Tommy Koh Copy Share Image
I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power,… — Luis A. Ferre Copy Share Image
All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding… — Zach Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden… — James Allen Copy Share Image
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it,… — Sunny Murray Copy Share Image
Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this… — Robert Platt Copy Share Image
