The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
If anybody would have told me I'd be making number seven Fast & Furious, I would have said, "You're crazy. "
The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.
If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!
You can't do sweatpants. . . ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.
If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.
I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being token seriously even within the scientific community An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical back ground to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their SpirItual aims and religious beliefs.
If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!
I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.