What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.
— Howard Gardner
Delighting Long Periods Of Time quotations
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political.
When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.
As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.
I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.
There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get.
The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time.
We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time
When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.
Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.
I just haven't found anyone that I want to spend long periods of time with.
I just try to be myself, whatever that is.
I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.
You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players.
There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time.
Take a moment to appreciate the person in your life. Realize why you are with them. Take a moment with them and really be in that moment completely.
Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
Many people can talk for a long period of time.
But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.
This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist orientation makes it so that people want to come to the United States in such numbers. I wish that we could figure out a way to do this in a legal fashion because I believe in the Latino culture.