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"If birds can glide for long periods of time, then… why can't I ?'

Orville Wright

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Steve Jobs

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Arthur C. Clarke

When we viewed consecutive 12-month performance or non-overlapping cumulative periods, consistent top performers all had experienced management teams with tenure higher than their peers. Experienced management teams can successfully maneuver their funds through a variety of market environments.

Rosanne Pane

We were horrible in the first two periods. We played a little better in the third. I know I had a horrible game.

Sean Bergenheim

He didn't feel well and after two periods [on Sunday], we decided to give him a rest.

Ondrej Weissman

I'm a songwriter and I have commitments in Nashville, and I can't afford to be on the road for long periods. So extended tours just wouldn't work.

Victoria Venier

No two periods are ever identical, and we don't expect cars to sprout fins, but we do think that there's a good chance that many of the favorable economic trends of the 1950s will re-emerge in the years immediately ahead.

Gerald Cohen

A couple of bounces weren't going our way, but the third was one of our best periods of the year.

Kevin Cooper

The thing that happened tonight was that they carried out all of their assignments, skated hard for three periods and forced the other team to make mistakes and capitalize on them.

Topper Mcfaun

The idea was to present different aspects of the life of Russian Jewry in New York, and in different time periods.

Oleg Budnitskii

There are periods when I'm out of it and have to stay in bed for a couple of days.

Jeff Allen

They go to the offensive boards, they're very athletic and we missed some check outs. There was periods where we had good defensive efforts, but we didn't rebound the basketball and that gives them a second chance.

Ken Burgei

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Guy Debord

Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods. But you need to look at the import of GM, not as much a stock but as a barometer of the economy.

Chuck Carlson

We kept our focus for three periods tonight. When we had a breakdown tonight, we were able to bounce back quickly. We shook up the lines a little bit, too.

Scott Gardiner

It felt like a playoff game out there. I thought we played well in the first two periods, then made one or two mistakes. The shoe could've been on the other foot and the guys have nothing to be ashamed of. We learned a lot from this one.

Danton Cole

Many journalists live with these threats. I've had periods of threats in my career, almost as partners.

Daniel Coronell

It's disappointing not to win one or both games. When you leave it into overtime and shootouts, anything can happen so we have to clean up our act a little bit in the early periods.

Jason Strudwick

We seem to find a way to make it interesting for everybody. That's not the way it should've went. The first two periods we should've scored more ... but we hung in there.

Rod Brind'amour

When you look at 26 pay periods on average and divide that into $70, it's really not going to be huge change in your take-home pay. But, cumulative, this will be a big chunk of change by the time 2010 rolls around. This is a $2.2 billion income tax cut.

Gary Gudmundson

I know if we're going to go any further, we need to play three periods of hockey.

Mike Breen

We picked it up in the second and third periods, but we'll have to play better.

Martin Rucinsky

By being your dog's advocate, you also are being your child's. There are many dogs that tolerate manhandling well for long periods of time. There are very few dogs that enjoy it.

Colleen Pelar

We've tried to do the heaviest work during down periods. We hope to get it finished by the end of April.

Ronnie Blackmon

It was periods of blizzard-like conditions, with visibility less than a quarter mile and sustained winds over 30 mph.

Bill Simpson

And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

We got scored on at the beginning of both periods and we made a lot of individual mistakes.

Alois Hadamczik

He always sheds new light on his characters by making different themes, ... You get to see the same character in different time periods and alternate dimensions.

Adam Garcia

That would solve the problem of keeping residents off of Broadway for extended periods of time.

Ron Drake

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Hermann Broch

You don?t want them steeped in water for extended periods of time.

Lori Wallace

That goal killed us between periods. It was hard to get our momentum going again.

Rich Falasca

We got after it in the fourth quarter, and showed more intensity than the first three (periods).

Jay Murray

We didn't even wake up until the third period. We've been off two weeks, and it was their home opener, and they had more jump and just flat outplayed us for the first two and a half periods.

Scott Gardiner

This isn't an easy game. We can't leave anything for granted and we can't allow periods of craziness like what happened two weeks ago.

Pavel Nedved

With 17-minute periods, we have learned that it is a long game and that you have to be patient. The players know that. If the coaches are feeling panicked, the players will feel that, too.

Greg Vannelli

It's been a little too easy to attribute it to managed care. There are a number of factors here that could explain overcrowding and increases in the numbers of people in certain periods going to the emergency room.

Karen Ignagni

The community really needs to keep pushing to get this fixed once and for all. Keep complaining to elected officials. Give comments during our comment periods for potential solutions.

Kevin Mayer

It was definitely a good game. The first two periods, I was kind of fighting the puck, but we knew this was going to be an important game and it was good for us to play well.

Daniel Girardi

It gets annoying after four periods.

Chris Gardner

Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months.

Gerard Aschieri

It's not much fun when you stay two periods in the net and don't get that many shots. In the third period, I actually felt a lot better. It's a great feeling to finally get a shutout.

Ilya Bryzgalov

We were a little too sloppy in all three periods to be able to squeak out a win.

Don Cahoon

They tend to become more cost conscious in periods of shrinking dollars.

Jacques Gansler

As we hire rapidly to scale up the company, it is natural to issue a larger number of stock awards than we would otherwise. The cost to the company of these stock awards occurs only over the periods the awards vest, which is when the employees earn the related benefit.

Steve Langdon

Disney has told us that queues at its other parks are also very long during peak periods ... but people may not be used to lining up for so long. So we are discussing with Disney on whether it could manage this more flexibly.

Henry Tang

Many faculty members are very supportive and they allow their students to attend some of the activities held during class periods.

Judy Daniels

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Sarah Brady

We were asleep in the first, but were able to come alive in the final two periods. I think the injury timeout stopped our momentum, but the health of all of my players is my No. 1 concern.

Craig Wehner

It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.

Brad Anderson

For people trying to protect critical data, music, images or videos, the benefit is peace of mind. They can be safely stored for much longer periods on these new discs.

Jim Gordon

Sometimes we get three or four installation jobs a week. During the lean periods we may get two jobs a month. What keeps us going during the lean periods is the demand for servicing that has arisen out of the number of dishes that have been installed. You have to be on top of your game. In this business if you try short cuts you can get found out very quickly.

Sean Murray

That's the thing that is really hard. You look at it and you think they won pretty big, but really in essence they won a lot of close matches. We needed to win those matches. Even late in the periods there were a few matches where we were behind and were not taking the shots we need to finish.

Lenny Bernstein

Probably until June when there is another month when there will be three pay periods.

Richard Bracken

The harvest takes place between August and December. During the other periods, we are going to use other fruit from the region.

Raimundo FrasĂŁo

I've had some people laugh, then when the laughter dies down, they ask me why, when I could just retire, do I want to become a legislator. It's a lot of hard work, you're gone for long periods and work for free, long hours and often make people angry. It can be tough. But I believe I can make a difference.

Fred Wood

The chance that there was ice on the lake is very, very high. It's almost guaranteed during those cold periods, 100 or 200 years long, that there was one such event at least, maybe four.

Doron Nof

He's not even supposed to be practicing yet. He hurt his back lifting weights and they told me it'd probably be two to four days. And he missed like two periods.

Don Dunn

What we've found is, if you look at a couple segments of science, observational or modeling, there is no illustrated link between climate change and hurricane intensity. We actually have periods of intensity followed by periods of lower intensity. We have evidence of periods going back to the 1930s. It follows a clear pattern.

Kent Laborde

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.

Mark Wagner

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Louis L'Amour

. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

Robert Anton Wilson

If we put three periods together like that third period, we are a top four team.

Dave Strang

It's important to understand what the manager is doing. You should believe in what he's doing. All (investing) styles have dry periods.

Reuben Brewer

Obviously when you can't contribute the way you want to and you miss extended periods of time, you feel like you didn't help the other 24 guys out there.

Kerry Wood

T.J. was at his best in the third period. He didn't have good success in the first two periods.

Rich Manning

We just had a lot of good athletes at the time. We won league in just about everything. It was one of those time periods where top to bottom, senior class to sophomore, there were a lot of good athletes.

Clint Johnson

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

David Hilbert

We're playing okay but we haven't put 60 minutes together. We're inconsistent and we're not putting full periods together.

Joe Augustine

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look.

Nelson Rockefeller

However, the effect is moderate, and further studies in younger people and over longer periods of time are needed in order to demonstrate clinical usefulness.

Dr. Stevo Julius

During the lean times, sometimes pay periods would be skipped. Employees came to expect this, because when financing did come in, they would be brought up current.

David West

Our goalie played great for two and a half periods. Two of the goals that went in during the third period, he didn't even see them.

Steve Woods

Try to buy those kinds of names when they're out of favor and hold on to them for long periods of time.

Phil Dow

We need to play three periods tomorrow like we played the first one tonight.

Katey Stone

In about half of our games, we've had bad first periods, but not tonight. We came out flying, and that's what we need to do from here on out.

Gary Defina

The graphic panels will illustrate through photographs and text the significant periods and events in time.

Karla Oliver

Historically, in the U.S. and in other countries, periods of rapid productivity growth have been periods of strong employment growth.

Martin Baily

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Matthew Mcconaughey

This might be one of the most challenging periods for...media regulation and media activity in the last many, many years.

Adonis Hoffman

Historically, the state usually falls further behind the nation during periods of economic weakness, as experienced in 2002 into 2003. However, job quality also fell by more than the national average in 2004.

Tom Rex

In the past when we've gone through periods where we're eliminating jobs, we've tried to do it so it'll have as minimal an impact as possible. In this instance, the financial situation is such we're just not able to do that.

Al Becker

We're well ahead of where anyone expected us to be. We can have pretty lengthy periods of bad weather and it's not going to be a panic.

Natasha Hryckow

From July until the end of December was one of the highest periods ever of increases for transportation projects. Labor costs are not an issue here - it's raw materials.

Darrell Johnson

Mark did a spectacular job for us during some of the most difficult periods in our financial markets.

Rob Feckner

It is rare today, except in very, very crowded periods, to have to wait more than 15 minutes to get into the museum, with [lines for] the coatroom included.

Didier Selles

Maryland's offense got a lead, and held the ball for long periods at a time, and it's tough to get into a rhythm that way. Our defense started to do things we are not accustomed to doing because we needed the ball.

Jesse Schwartzman

Periods of deprivation can cause cows to become stressed.

Jim Chapman

It was a great third period. I wasn't happy with the first two periods, but we really regrouped in the third.

Nick Iaciancio

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Tomas Kaberle

We need to get in their grant periods, but those will be after we run out of money.

Beth Ann Fuller

We're in one of those lull periods where the market is just about to go into a period where it gets a bit quiet.

Stuart Fowler

Which in previous periods was an interesting technological novelty but is now becoming a mainstream purchase for corporations in the United Kingdom.

John Maguire

We took most of the first two periods off. We came out a little more desperate, a little more hungry in the third period and generated quite a few more scoring chances.

Darren Rommerdahl

At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At least we started trying. It was a pretty pathetic effort by our group.

Craig Mactavish

After Alfie left the game, you are always thinking about how he's feeling and you don't like to see a guy get hit that hard. In between periods, we knew that we had to get the lead for him. It didn't matter who scored, it was a great team effort. We didn't try to be individual about it.

Bryan Smolinski

We've been on a good roll, but in the third periods of most of our games, we've kind of let up (lately).

Lance Galbraith

There have been periods in Motorola's history, including the early 1990s, when the sales growth rates and profitability of certain of our individual businesses were out of phase with each other.

Christopher B. Galvin

Two solid periods, then two mental lapses. You can't do that. This will be a tough one to swallow the next two weeks.

Kyle Calder

People will have alibis for certain time periods, and if you can determine death happened at another time, it makes a difference in the court case.

William Bass

Art, not unlike raising children, ... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

Michael Kimmelman

This is a bit of a retrospective show for him. He has work from earlier periods and all the way up to current work.

Mark Mcwhorter

In the periods where he wasn't playing, he always showed a good attitude and was always prepared to work hard.

Chris Hughton

We found that being responsible for a pet, such as committing to walk a loaner dog, encouraged people who did not own dogs to walk more often and for longer periods.

Rebecca Johnson

We have to have better first periods. We've had really strong third periods all year.

Ralph Triboletti

They outworked us the first two periods. They're a good team.

Billy Ryan

It seems we can't play 60 minutes. We have good periods, but we lack the effort.

Tomi Pettinen

We were slow, especially for the first two periods. We had some good opportunities and we just didn't put (the puck) in. That hasn't been like us this year.

Mike Commodore

We weren't offensive. That was the main thing. We didn't give ourselves a chance. We weren't daring. We hustled, but were not aggressive. We were behind late in periods and not taking shots.

Lenny Bernstein

The period when Steve Jobs was not there was one of the most difficult periods in the company's history. When he returned, he set Apple back on a positive trajectory again.

Rakesh Khurana

I think it is a big loss. We battled hard for two periods and we didn't stay with it in the third.

Jonathan Sim

I thought he was solid all night. He didn't have a lot of shots for two periods, but when they did, he was there.

Joey Mullen

There are so many kids that just think senior year equates to four periods a day.

Noreen Carvolth

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

John Nash

We played the entire two overtime periods down a man. We just have some young guys, it's not a discipline problem.

Brendan Eitz

We would see 50 or more waves. It turned out that during one of these periods of recording, the biggest crest-peak wave that we measured was 91 feet.

William Teague

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

John le Carre

Bedford was a motivated team. They wanted to even the scored and this was a perfect opportunity. This feels like a win for us. For long periods we were not in the game.

Ian Cooke

It's an alternative during busy weekend and holiday periods if you don't feel like dealing with crowds but just want to enjoy the serenity of being in the mountains.

Karl Stone

It's funny how clean that went in ... it could have went through the little slit, you know, those boards that they used to put up between periods.

Curtis Sanford

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

Philip Gonsalves

We still need to put four periods together. Fort Mill is a well-coached team and we didn't do the little things.

Ricardo Priester

You have these periods when there's a major civic crisis that redefines civic life.

William Strauss

Once we do that for longer periods and more consistently throughout Test matches we should be a force to be reckon with against a formidable Black Cap team.

Wavell Hinds

Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground.

Steve Wall

We had a great third period. It's one of those things as coaches that we've got to figure out; what's going to make them play all three [periods] like that?

Jeff Perreault

Greenspan showed that you can have long periods of full employment without inflation.

Alan Meltzer

Hats off to them. They didn't allow us to get into any flow offensively. We were on defense for long, long periods of time, and it's hard when you're playing defense all the time. They were very patient and worked the ball around.

Lyle Mcintosh

The first and third periods, I thought we out-played them, the second was really the period that hurt us.

Rusty Granacker

David suffered from periods of deep depression and evidently could no longer cope. His mother and I trust that he is now at peace with the demons that finally possessed him.

Jack Ferguson

The roots and the history and the long periods of affiliation don't exist here.

Abraham Diskin

If they can capture them very efficiently in that time, that's a great way to do it. Up to this point, it hasn't been very efficient. Now maybe we can bring them into traps for extended periods.

Peter Sorensen

The first couple periods, we were in it. We had chances but we didn't get any bounces. You can't blame what happened tonight on a lack of effort for the majority of the game. It looks a lot worse than it is just because of the last part of the third period.

Jamie Heward

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra

The Pistons always had great defense, but there were times where this team really had some stagnant periods.

Tim Legler

There's been an odd month which has had above average but it's been a notable dry period. There are two winter periods included and it is that what creates the real concern within the water industry.

Wayne Elliott

Evidence from controlled clinical trials such as this is crucial for understanding caloric restriction?s effects on factors affecting aging. These findings indicate that that we need to learn more about effects of maintaining low calorie diets for longer periods.

Evan Hadley

We picked up the pace in the second and the third periods. We got down two goals but we battled back to tie it. Hopefully, that's a sign of good things to come.

Erik Cole

We played with a lot of heart for seven periods.

Earl Boykins