Top 1200 Life Span Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc.

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

TV works at such amazing deadlines and the audiences you're catering to is a very different audience than the one that watches films as the attention span is less.

I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

Korea achieved economic development in a short span of time, which is why competition can be more intense here than in other countries.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

I always say the Boston Celtics of the 1960s were the only true dynasty, because they won nine titles in a 10-year span.

The career span for athletes is very short-lived. So you aren't being, perhaps, the smartest person if you don't take care of your family when you're able to.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

When I started thinking about plans to avenge [my father], I realized I was only going to become someone worse than him, someone worse than the person I had so often criticized. I was going against my own principles. And yes, people tell me that it was a tremendous life decision in the span of 10 minutes but I just say, what else was there to think of?

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown. I didn't have much of an attention span.

A comedian's career span is five or 10 years. I am lucky to have worked with so many distinguished actors and their grandsons.

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.

There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn't interested in events and ideas.

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

Look, there’s nothing I’m ever going to tell you about me that’s the truth. The more you know about me, the shorter your life span is going to be. All you need to know is that I don’t miss. In fact, you don’t even need to know exactly how good I really am, because if you ever find out, you’re going to be dead. (Steele)

The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership and it continued. Peter Lindbergh still uses girls - like, look at Amber Valetta - so there are some photographers that have relationships long-term with models. I also think that the industry can't support the amount of models that exist right now and therefore the relationships between photographers and models and even the clients is short lived.

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

I can't even stay with my wife Saloni and my two daughters for a long span of time, as I have to travel all over the world for concerts.

Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

All I wanted to do while I was a teenager was go out and play most of the time and just enjoy life and have fun. I wasn't big into school, you know, I look back now and wish I would have spent more time studying and enjoyed it more. It's not for everyone and I didn't enjoy it that much like going to school and studying - some stuff I did but some of it I didn't. My attention span wasn't there.