#amount

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#amount #attempt #consequent #figures #greed

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. ↗

— William Hurt

#amount #being #believe #done #energy

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#certain #economy #europe #first #first of all

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#china #energy #increasingly #japan #tremendous

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#back #blood #certain #circulating #dizzy

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#bed #go #paramount #reasons #somebody

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#bohemia #cost #effort #here #huge

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are. ↗

— David Cone

#amount #arrogance #better #career #certain

I think us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#avoiding #balanced #being #change #enjoyable

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#called #chips #computers #crazy #different