A Quote by Timur

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

Timur

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Absent Better Hand Men Ten Than Thousand

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Timur
Afghani - Leader
April 8, 1336 - February 18, 1405

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Malcolm Gladwell

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Euripides

WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.

Julian Assange

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

James Agee

I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.

Peter Hook

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

Langston Hughes

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

Elizabeth Kim

Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.

Rocco Landesman

There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

Frederick Lenz

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

William Petty

Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

Mitt Romney

There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.

Frederick Lenz

The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.