Minutes Quotes - Page 10

• When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

  Taylor Hackford

  Rays, Pieces, Stones

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• I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

  Daniel Johns

  Sleep, Bed, Extras

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• For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

  Sue Wicks

  Team, Games, Play

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• Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second
  perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Writing, Light, Water

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• Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

  Roy H. Williams

  Book, Today, Behavior

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.12, BookBaby

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• The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

  Bill Kurtis

  Boss, Important, Let It Go

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• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Long, People

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• A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

  Barry Hughart

  Wise, Men, Years

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.73, Spectra

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• Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

  Hakim Bey

  Police, Video, Consciousness

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• A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

  Louis Nizer

  Oil, Doe, Boring

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• I spend a few minutes in meditation and prayer each morning. I find that this really helps me to start the day with a good frame of reference. As part of my prayers, I thank whoever is helping me - I'm sure that somebody or something is - I express gratitude for all my blessings and try to forgive the people that I'm feeling negative toward. I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems.

  Jim Henson

  Gratitude, Morning, Prayer

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, Wonderful Friends

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym..it’s a lifestyle

  Lee Priest

  Bodybuilding, Lifestyle, Gym

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• Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.

  Diane Chamberlain

  Life, Grateful, Wrinkles

  Diane Chamberlain (2009). “The Bay at Midnight”, p.96, Harlequin

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• I donno, it's not impressive. Once I put ear plugs in and put a blind fold on for like 14 minutes and I did just fine.

  Zach Braff

  Ears, Blind, Plugs

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• Minutes to learn, a lifetime to master. People just don't understand that

  Zach Braff

  People, Lifetime, Masters

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• I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value.

  Anne Perry

  Believe, Dark, Light

  Anne Perry (2010). “The Silent Cry: A William Monk Novel”, p.299, Ballantine Books

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• My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Ideas, Two, Educated

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• We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

  Larry Kramer

  Country, Crazy, War

  The Normal Heart act 2, sc. 11 (1985)

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• Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Light, Vegetables, Play

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• But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

  Henry Mayhew

  Division, Branches, Firsts

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• ... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

  Art Buchwald

  Afterlife, Funny Graduation, Profound

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• They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

  Minnie Pearl

  Doors, Taking Pictures, Appearance

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Guitar, Names, People

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• They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.

  Joe Flaherty

  Daughter, Rose, Missing

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