Best Periods Quotes

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Mindfulness is a quality that’s always there. It’s an illusion that there’s a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you’re either mindful or you’re not.

There’s never been a presidency that’s done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven’t even started the big work yet.

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it’s always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I dont think being gay is a sin. Period.

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus’s motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening’s slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

Let’s be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It’s a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don’t. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the ’70s!

Periods. We all get periods. Once a month, yeah. That’s what the theory is

Silence is so important when you’re working, You must have periods where you don’t hear anything, just to reflect on you’ve already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you’re working on.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don’t want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

People who don’t want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying – half unconsciously, perhaps – to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It’s pretty mean but it’s true.

The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you’re in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody’s personality.

I haven’t seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven’t seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it – see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

I’m more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting ‘good taste’ is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.