„A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.“
Robert Baden-Powell9
britischer Kavallerie-Offizier und Gründer der Pfadfinderbe… 1857 - 1941Ähnliche Zitate
— Donald Rumsfeld U.S. Secretary of Defense 1932
TownHall Meeting At Aviano Air Base in Italy (7 February 2003) https://web.archive.org/web/20070114160540/http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/t02072003_t0207sdtownhall.html
2000s
„It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.“
— Charles Bukowski, buch Pulp
Variante: It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
Quelle: Pulp
— Daniel Levitin American psychologist 1957
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Kontext: During the first six months or so of life... the infant brain is unable to clearly distinguish the source of sensory inputs; vision, hearing, and touch meld into a unitary perceptual representation.... inputs from the various sensory receptors may connect to many different parts of the brain, pending pruning that will occur later in life. As Simon Baron-Cohen has described it, with all this sensory cross talk, the infant lives in a state of complete psychodelic splendor (without the aid of drugs).
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992
Asimov Laughs Again (1992)
General sources
— Thomas Friedman American journalist and author 1953
New York Times (30 November 2003) "The Chant Not Heard".
"The next … months" in Iraq
— H. Beam Piper American science fiction writer 1904 - 1964
A Slave is a Slave (1962)
Kontext: Oh, he won't think of it in those terms. He'll be preventing me from sabotaging the Emancipation. He doesn't want to wait three generations; he wants to free them at once. Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.
„If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.“
— Fabio Cannavaro Italian footballer 1973
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
— Keshub Chunder Sen Indian academic 1838 - 1884
The Life of Ramakrishna by Romain Rolland, translated by E.F. Malcolm-Smith, Advaita Ashrama.
— Mary Baker Eddy, buch Wissenschaft und Gesundheit mit Schlüssel zur Heiligen Schrift
Quelle: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 98
„One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.“
— Christina Rossetti English poet 1830 - 1894
Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„You know, they can't keep me here for more than six months.“
— Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh 1920 - 1975
While speaking with a western journalist during proceedings of the Agartala conspiracy trial. Mujib was released within in seven months of his arrest as a result of mass agitation and wide scale civil disobedience in East Pakistan. http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2008/08/04/chintito.htm
Quote, Other
— Henry Van Dyke American diplomat 1852 - 1933
A Leaf of Spearmint, III
Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)
„I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!“
— Paula Modersohn-Becker German artist 1876 - 1907
In a letter to her mother, End of October 1907; as quoted in: Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 30
1906 + 1907
— Peter Blake British artist 1932
Charlotte Higgins, "It was 37 years ago today – and Sgt Pepper cover has still failed to pay", http://www.guardian.co.uk/thebeatles/story/0,,1230411,00.html The Guardian, 2004-06-03
On his painting, Marcel Duchamp's World Tour.
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