- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Deluge
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're allowing the political environment to infect your relationships, it's time to bury the hatchets.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.
- Basketball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life. You have to be able to be husband and wife at the same time as business partners.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
- Appointments
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.
- Engineered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
- Combustion
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- Nov 07, 2020