Five Minutes Quotes - Page 16

• If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Wine, Thinking

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

  Mark Barnes

  Teacher, Teaching, Peers

  Mark Barnes (2013). “The 5-Minute Teacher: How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias)”, p.13, ASCD

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• You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Behavior Change, Minutes, Persons

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• For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

  Brendan O'Carroll

  People, Pieces, Middle Of Nowhere

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

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• Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Organization, People, Effort

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• If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

  Jim Rohn

  Complaining, Minutes, Five

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• The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

  John Updike

  Book, Errors, Lasts

  John Updike (2013). “More Matter: Essays And Criticism”, p.866, Penguin UK

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• It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

  Alex Prager

  Mean, Lasts, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.

  Sue Thoele

  Art, Solitude, Tea

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• It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Nice, Looks, Minutes

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• When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

  Shenae Grimes

  Morning, Coffee, Care

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• I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Typewriters, Trying

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• In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

  Don Henley

  Peace, Numbers, Special

  Song: Them and Us, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
  Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Wise, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

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• I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

  Amar Bose

  Years, Sound, Looks

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• I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Keys, Bathroom, Minutes

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

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• Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

  Jules Renard

  People, Waste, Boring

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• You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

  Robert Herjavec

  Running, Done, Matter

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• Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  People, Cooking, Done

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• Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

  Kendall Jenner

  Kids, Want, Normal

  "Kendall Jenner: ‘Keeping up With the Kardashians’ ‘Brought Us Everything We Have’" By Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

  Doreen Virtue

  Silence, Soul, Spirit

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2017

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• I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fall, Wake Up, Fainting

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• I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

  Sadie Frost

  Girl, Party, Taken

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

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• Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

  Jack Charlton

  Change, Men, Facts

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