#six

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#chances #conversations #habit #how #improvement

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ↗

— Will Durant

#last #little #most #much #six

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#civil war #day #five #good #good day

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. ↗

— John Foxe

#emperor #first #persecution #place #rome

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night. ↗

— James Franco

#hours #i #like #night #six

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will ↗

— Jack Welch

#e-zsigma #islss #kaizen #leadership #lean

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#company #getting #going #hour #just

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#also #books #cartoons #got #i

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me? ↗

— Tony Greig

#come #faced #field #five #into