Period Quotes
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In some environments, roles shift and change each period depending on what the company's needs are. On the other hand, many functional roles can become very repetitive if you perform similar tasks over and over again.
Andrew Yan -
There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.
Annalee Newitz
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The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.
Steven Stucky -
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something
Zach Braff -
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.
Lech Walesa -
They're in the middle of a very solid time period right now. It's all good.
David Haas -
When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.
Kevin Hart -
In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
Nancy Lancaster
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You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
Pablo Picasso -
Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.
Ashwin Sanghi -
The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.
Quentin S. Crisp -
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm -
1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
Carrie Vaughn -
Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate, because I've never made music in that way. I come from a culture of editing and remixing.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.
Nancy Lancaster -
Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!
Jimmy Iovine -
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees -
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
Steven Levy -
For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees -
We want to undersell and overdeliver. We hopefully would be ensuring another period of sustained success.
Tom Werner
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My personal style is a continued evolution. I can see I've had a different style for every different age in the period of my life. It's difficult for me to say what is my style because I change all the time. I change every eight months, it's so weird.
Alessandra Mastronardi -
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
John Milton -
I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
Amor Towles -
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
Michael Rosbash