Hours Quotes - Page 12

• The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

  Lynda Barry

  Exercise, Mind, Diaries

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• Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Dark, Men, Light

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• I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

  Dave Eggers

  Self, Yesterday, Eight

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

  Michael Bassey

  Men, Years, Forever

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• It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.

  Rosellen Brown

  Jobs, Writing, Airplane

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• How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?

  Howard Jacobson

  Knowing, Together, Goes On

  Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.16, A&C Black

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• You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Running, Want Something, Three

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?

  Ray William Johnson

  Film, Cases, Shock

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  Yunjin Kim

  Nice, People, Swim

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• I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

  Philip Johnson

  Sleep, Bed, Nine

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

  Bryan Procter

  Fall, Night, Shadow

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• In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

  Hugh Martin

  Dna, Cells, Two

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• Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Memories, Book, Pleasure

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• Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.

  Robert G. Allen

  World, Cash, Keyboards

  Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

  Roger Bannister

  Quality Not Quantity, Jogging, Three

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• Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

  Paul O'Grady

  Fun, Work, Eye

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• I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

  D. B. Sweeney

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.

  Maynard Webb

  Years, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

  Maynard Webb

  Technology, Ideas, Want

  "Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

  Maurice Bowra

  Awkward, Cocktails

  Cecil Maurice Bowra (2005). “New Bats in Old Belfries: Or Some Loose Tiles”

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• It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

  Jerry Adler

  Breathing, Earth, Problem

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• I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

  Martha Wainwright

  Artist, Sitting Down, Needs

  "Martha Wainwright Makes a Home". Interview with Erin Brady, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Song, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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