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The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.
Alvar Aalto
Best
Nature
World
Result
Herself
Possible
Never
Mainly
Smallest
Combinations
Occurs
Encounters
Committee
Cells
Which
Flexible
Connection
Units
Millions
Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
Amanda de Cadenet
Time
Women
More
Feel
Occurs
Opposite
Often
Pregnancy
Bodies
Connected
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
Andrea Jung
Learning
Old
First
Beginning
Months
Something
More
Firm
Like
Economy
Became
Learning Curve
Makes
Occurs
Traditional
Branded
Hit
Stocks
Six
Curve
CEO
Your
Fast
If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
Ben Bernanke
Think
Tools
Federal
Federal Reserve
Cliff
Fiscal
Occurs
Offset
Reserve
Event
I like going into a scene knowing that the script isn't quite finished, that there's something that isn't really going to reveal itself until something spontaneously occurs.
Bennett Miller
Finished
Something
Scene
Like
Spontaneously
Until
Knowing
Reveal
Occurs
Itself
Going
Quite
Script
Really
If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Great
Destruction
Winner
Feeling
Country
Rubble
Ruins
Destroyed
Case
Point
Also
Pile
Proud
Occurs
Bangkok
Anyone
Then
Standing
Whole
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
Bob Ehrlich
Education
Time
Age
Thinking
Early Years
Our
Tell
Kindergarten
About
Risk
Development
Occurs
Falling
Years
Brain
Begin
Five
Behind
Children
Experts
Us
Start
Early
By The Time
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
Charles Francis Richter
Experience
Problem
Single
Earthquake
More
Records
Fact
Could
Obvious
Acceleration
Became
Frequency
Reduced
Occurs
Vibrations
In Fact
Gained
Full
Peak
Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.
Chris Cornell
Great
Brilliant
Three
Example
Believe
Other
Reliable
Some
Minutes
Someone
Something
More
Could
Most
Because
Occurs
Than
Just
Happen
Them
Chipping
Might
Then
Create
Really
Away
Things
In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Government
Time
Science
Women
Problem
Long
Lose
Some
Husbands
Bosses
Take
Talented
Because
Occurs
Leaves
Maternity
Encouraged
German
Get
Pregnant
Special
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
Craig Brown
Game
Will
First
Before
Has-Been
Table
Insisted
Throughout
Consulting
Generally
He
Clear
Making
Opponents
Occurs
Been
Dictionary
Scrabble
Often
Irritated
Placed
Board
Grow
Bringing
Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.
David Eigenberg
Life
People
Some People
Thinking
Others
Way
Out
Some
About
Occurs
Go
Plan
Things
In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
Dimitar Sasselov
Change
Science
Rare
Our
Lifetimes
Occurs
There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
History
Country
Transformation
Our
Emerge
Seems
Remarkable
Take
Altered
Occurs
Handful
Times
Begins
The History Of
Place
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton
Change
Changes
Direct
Proportion
Never
Occurs
Dissatisfaction
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
Edith Widder
Life
Light
Animals
Understanding
Ocean
Think
Our
Spent
Critical
Fact
Study
Studying
Most
Make
Because
Occurs
Where
Career
Phenomenon
The name of a cat has to come from something that just occurs to you by interacting with the cat.
El-P
You
Something
Cat
Name
Come
Occurs
Just
Interacting
It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Good
You
Yourself
Amazing
Mentality
Occurs
Shift
Want
Pregnancy
Sudden
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
Ernst Mayr
Change
Relatively
Drastic
Drastic Change
Claimed
Small
Isolated
Occurs
Population
I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.
Ernst Mayr
Claim
Only
Occurs
Did
Founder
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
Eugenio Montale
Power
Enthusiastic
Crowd
Poetry
Written
Countries
Also
Occurs
Square
Authoritarian
Front
Where
Regimes
It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury. If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises. If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver cancer occurs.
Eva Vertes
You
Result
Cancer
Direct
Seems
Drink
Arises
Smoke
Occurs
Tissue
Then
Your
Liver
Injury
Lung
Damage
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
You
Age
Old
Young
Too
Rush
Net
Take
Occurs
Up
Middle
Middle Age
Golf
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
You
Age
Old
Young
Too
Exact
Rush
Net
Point
Take
Dead
Occurs
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Up
Middle
Middle Age
Golf
Center
Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
Gary Zukav
Everyone
Our
Earth
Neither
Entirely
Poles
Occurs
Opposed
Forever
Depends
Where
Experiences
Literally
Stand
Two
I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Creativity
Think
Our
About
Small
Computer
Remarkable
Never
Occurs
Wonder
Personal
Same
Often
Dynamic
Which
Capabilities
Capacity
Ask
Use
Many
Things
Fraction
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