#period

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#early #few #funny #hate #i

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#almost #begun #cooled #disappear #eager

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#clear #could #ever #far #goals

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#before #college #first #got #graduated

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#artists #coming #dark #go #humans

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result? ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#circumstances #distorted #disturbing #factors #had

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. ↗

— Frances Wright

#expand #like #little #over #owners

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#experienced #i #make #music #period