#lifetime

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act. ↗

— Max Weber

#achieved #act #again #always #become

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#get #i #lifetime #more #mountains

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#child #dog #less #lifetime #lost

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#been #each #easy #first #lifetime

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that. ↗

— Gary Locke

#ask #books #campaigns #change #game

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. ↗

— William McKinley

#during #example #his #history #hope

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#decided #i #lifetime #limit #limits

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#awards #books #degrees #encouragement #encouraging

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. ↗

— Barack Obama

#each #eight #electricity #enough #expanded