People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generation...
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than...
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.
I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
What still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled...
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come b...
But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, t...
Do you know? He says. I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.
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