#the history of

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them? ↗

— Dick Wolf

#air #department #early #focus #focus groups

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. ↗

— Andy Grove

#change #company #decline #dramatically #history

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#cinema #colleagues #grasp #history #i

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#freedom #history #none #other #progress

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. ↗

— David Hockney

#chemicals #ended #episode #era #fixed

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#community #history #impossible #insignificant #nothing

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#actuality #after #appearance #become #been

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#been #covered #fashion #high #history

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#assumed #critical #done #felt #feminism