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EVANS G. VALENS We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS![]()
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE![]()
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD![]()
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER![]()
Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR![]()
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW![]()
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE![]()
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER![]()
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK![]()
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a...
ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
MINOR MYERS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA![]()
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE![]()
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE![]()
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE![]()
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY![]()
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO![]()
I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
LADY GAGA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rati...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD![]()
a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER![]()
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL![]()
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We basically want to make these materials available to anybody and everybody who has a stake in sell...
BOB LACHKY We want to be a new Gonzaga. We want to be a mid-major that is thought of as a major. We have to con...
RONNIE ARROW Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD![]()
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO![]()
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE![]()
This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS![]()
In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE![]()
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH![]()
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be u...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.
DILLON BURROUGHS There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW The last owner was a bad experience for this business, so we have tried to put the restaurant back t...
JUAN GOMEZ The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE I could make a difference.
CHRIS BURKE![]()
It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA We want people to download responsibly. We make the technology available, and we don't make a distin...
ASHWIN NAVIN![]()
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR![]()
It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The life of a vampire begins with the first bite.
A.J. GALLANT Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”
-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT![]()
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY![]()
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE![]()
We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
EVANS G. VALENS We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di... CHAIM POTOK
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a... ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
MINOR MYERS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
After Rilke's Letters-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?""I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference. LADY GAGA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rati...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
What will happen if we go to 0 day?...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA We basically want to make these materials available to anybody and everybody who has a stake in sell...
BOB LACHKY We want to be a new Gonzaga. We want to be a mid-major that is thought of as a major. We have to con...
RONNIE ARROW Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE
This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS
…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS
In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference. CRAIG GROESCHEL
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be u... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.
DILLON BURROUGHS There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW The last owner was a bad experience for this business, so we have tried to put the restaurant back t...
JUAN GOMEZ The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE I could make a difference.
CHRIS BURKE
It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA We want people to download responsibly. We make the technology available, and we don't make a distin...
ASHWIN NAVIN
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can. LJUPKA CVETANOVA The life of a vampire begins with the first bite.
A.J. GALLANT Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”
-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE
We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed in ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. 
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ... 
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure... 
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ... 
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai... 
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir... 
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. 
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt... 
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru... 
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee... 
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re... 
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. 
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h... 
A man can preach no better than he prays. 
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr... 
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. 
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami... 
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... 
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in... 
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. 
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. 
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure... 
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon... 
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill... 
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. 
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c... 
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van... 
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust... 
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. 
I could never hate anyone I knew. 
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more... 
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ... 
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official... 
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. 
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... 
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. 
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th... 
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is... 
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al... 
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ... 
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v... 
Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ... 
You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d... 
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. 
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... 
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. 
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf... 
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. 
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o... 
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own. 
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. 
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an... 
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. 
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int... 
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. 
Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe... 
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. 