#twenty

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#avoid #been #being #career #grow

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand. ↗

— Pete Rose

#do you know #game #get #go #gone

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. ↗

— William Wyler

#else #get #great #nothing #percent

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#nature

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fifty #his #life #man #same

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#almost #daily #devote #effect #exertion

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#compel #conduct #even #greater #grid

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#day #fruit #invisible #maybe #remains

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#everyone #fifty #talent #twenty-five

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#every #i #lose #often #once