#prolong

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead? ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#asked #been #carried #commission #could

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#either #holiday #looked #may #prolonged

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#does #goal #life #long life #only

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. ↗

— David Remnick

#almost #been #between #crisis #editor

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #authority #because #being #believe

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#age #change #chief #early #enforce

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#around #ending #fruits #new #problems

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#cannot #childhood #hell #prolonged #remain

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#first #how #last #last year #life