Quotes About Generation

Daily Law: With some distance and awareness, you can become much more than a follower of or a rebel against your generation; you can mold your own relationship to the zeitgeist and become a formidable trendsetter.

You must alter your attitude toward your own generation. We like to imagine that we are autonomous and that our values and ideas come from within, not without, but this is in fact not the case. Your goal is to understand as deeply as possible how profoundly the spirit of your generation, and the times that you live in, have influenced how you perceive the world.

You were too young to fight in the last war, and I was too old. In some ways that made it worse.

An entire generation's correspondence and memories had vanished into this mysterious entity the antiquarians called 'The Cloud'.

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

Have you ever wondered where the idea of retirement at the age of 65 came from? I'll tell you where: Otto von Bismarck, the president of Prussia, in 1889. Actually, Bismarck's government: At the time, the life expectancy of the average Prussian was about 45. Today, so many are living well into their 80s and 90s that the same promise might well bankrupt the federal government within the next generation.

For the World War II generation, it was considered bad to skip from company to company. Today, it is considered smart. It enables you to learn more and will pay dividends in the long runs. The main management skills needed for success are: 1) Management of cash flow, 2) Management of systems, and 3) Management of people. And the most important specialized skills are sales and marketing. Communication skills such as writing, speaking, and negotiating are crucial to a life of success.

Think of it this way: Once a dollar goes into your asset column, it becomes your employee. The best thing about money is that it works 24 hours a day and can work for generations. Keep your day job, be a great hardworking employee, but keep building that asset column.

Satu-satunya aset paling kuat yang kita miliki adalah pikoran kita. Jika dilatih dengan baik, pikiran bisa menciptakan kekayaan yang luar biasa dalam waktu yang kelihatannya singkat. Pikiran yang tidak terlatih juga bisa menciptakan kemiskinan yang ekstrem, yang bisa mengahncurkan keluarga selama bergenerasi-generasi.

Ah, children are not what they were in my young days. They listened to their parents then.

away from a world where women bobbed their hair and you couldn't tell who were grandmothers and who were flappers—from behind

I'm grateful for any opportunity to help inspire the next generation

men of their generation, quick to see a slight, quick to draw their swords. But a dawn affair of honor was

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

And after the crop is harvested the fields cleared of rocks and stubble swords beaten into plowshares dirt furrowed the new seeds, planted deep and cared for, will grow into strong children with kind hands and strong bodies and honorable hearts the first generation unscarred untouchable that's your loss and our triumph

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.""I don't even know what that is!""Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

a young American with a moderate level of education expects to change jobs at least eleven times during his or her working life – and the pace and frequency of change are almost certain to go on growing before the working life of the present generation is over.

nuestra era de pensamientos y cosas calculadas para generar «un impacto máximo y una obsolescencia instantánea», tal como decía George Steiner.

And these have been successfully tested. Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact. Face & Luke