#lifetime

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#been #by the time #company #culmination #decision

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#accomplishment #any #background #child #children

Love isn’t an act, it’s a whole life. It’s staying with [them] now because [they] need you; it’s knowing you... will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures—when all that’s on the shelf and done with. ↗

— Brian Moore

#love #life

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#had #inarticulate #lifetime #memories #once

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #been #legend #lifetime

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#any #figure #heroic #i #level

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#mind #only #our #war #weapons

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#goal #last #lifetime #provide #students

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