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  • Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

    "Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work". Book by John C. Maxwell, April 2003.
  • As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

    Book   Average   Milk  
    Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA
  • Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

    Queens   Teenage   Heart  
  • I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever.

    "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.
  • Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

    People   Shapes   Shelves  
    Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

    Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.
  • High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

    Fashion   Past   Salad  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.46, Faber & Faber
  • Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.

    Ideas   Share   Shelves  
  • The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

    Causes   Moral   Intense  
    1988 'Is Nothing Sacred? The Ethics of Television', in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fall.
  • Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

    Artist   Years   Games  
  • I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it. I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here.

    Jesus   Lying   Sarcasm  
  • Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

  • Potential has a shelf life.

    Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam
  • I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

    Long   Political   News  
    "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.
  • An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

    Jobs   Fall   Years  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

    "Mackenzie Davis: Girl on Fire" by Logan Sykes, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2014.
  • It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

  • It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

    Loyalty   Powerful   Fog  
  • Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

    Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
  • Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

    Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
  • When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

    Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

    Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.250, Penguin
  • Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.

    Stars   Class   Done  
  • The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

    Book   Average   Yogurt  
  • There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.

  • When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

    Sexy   Men   Years  
    "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.
  • Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."

    Mom   Self   Vegetables  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.54, Faber & Faber
  • In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

    "Shaun Cassidy Creator Of American Gothic". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. December 19, 2005.
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