Five Minutes Quotes

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.

  Noel Gallagher

  Mad, House, Photographer

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Lying, Play, Double Standard

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• When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

  David Copperfield

  Years, Two, Preparation

  Source: www.bicyclecards.com

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• The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

  Celia Green

  History, Important, Lasts

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Want, Used, Minutes

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• [Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nurse, Buttons, Letters

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• Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Morning, Intention

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• If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.

  Ken Robinson

  Spirit, Hours, Minutes

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• Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Past, Reality, Dwelling

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• The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Reason, Beats, Minutes

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• Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  "Crouch rises to the occasion but Smith laid low with a broken leg" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

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• With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Looks, Band, Internet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

  Alistair Maclean

  Courage, Son, Men

  ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”

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• Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

  Mason Cooley

  Opinion, Minutes, Heard

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• Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the 1970 Open at St. Andrews. I tell them that some times it doesn't cross my mind for a full five minutes.

  Doug Sanders

  Golf, Winning, Thinking

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• Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Jobs, Character, Guitar

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• In Seattle, they have a saying: 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.'

  Doug Benson

  Funny, Weather, Waiting

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• I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

  Miley Cyrus

  Trying, Able, Hearing

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• If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Democracy, Voters, Want

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• Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Charity, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4474, Manonmani Publishers

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• Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.

  Silken Laumann

  Gratitude, Lying, Grateful

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• In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

  Elias Canetti

  Book, Reading, Would Be

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• Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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