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Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease (Period Quotes)
Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it’s about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they’re capable of playing for a long period of time (Period Quotes)
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end (Period Quotes)
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness... evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise (Period Quotes)
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported (Period Quotes)
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted (Period Quotes)
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other (Period Quotes)
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment (Period Quotes)
I’d still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period (Period Quotes)
For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period (Period Quotes)
The single biggest issue that I’m very sensitive to is inflation. I’m very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low and stimulated a lot of activity could breed inflation and create a problem for us (Period Quotes)
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life (Period Quotes)
Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle... we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time (Period Quotes)
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short that we can do it. We can prevail. Why, you can stand your foot in a vise for a while if you know it’s going to be released soon. Yes, earthly probation is short compared to eternity, but so very much is riding on how we handle the trials and temptations of the flesh (Period Quotes)
I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I’m glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today (Period Quotes)
It’s nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials (Period Quotes)
You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very short period of time. What you can’t afford to do is throw away your capital on suboptimal trades (Period Quotes)
Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated (Period Quotes)
Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent tradition, and to express its vision in a way that responded to the needs of the new situation (Period Quotes)
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue (Period Quotes)
I don’t like to intellectualize about my acting. I don’t sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don’t worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can’t put anything into a character that you haven’t got within you (Period Quotes)
I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude. About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I’m grateful for, and there are many in my life. I’m just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day (Period Quotes)
There’s a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life (Period Quotes)
Highways don’t belong in cities. Period. Europe didn’t do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price (Period Quotes)
In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules... but it’s impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time (Period Quotes)
I don’t even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save too much during that period? I don’t know what a credit bubble means. I don’t even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don’t think they have any meaning (Period Quotes)
The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight (Period Quotes)
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives (Period Quotes)
Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works (Period Quotes)
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated (Period Quotes)