Minutes Quotes - Page 16

• The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

  Michel Faber

  Life, Memories, Eye

  Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.

  Wang Anyi

  Dust, Looks, World

  Wang Anyi (2008). “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai”, p.199, Columbia University Press

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• God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.

  Frank Laubach

  Years, Giving, Mind

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Fiber, Steps, Impossible

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• Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.

  Nyogen Senzaki

  Watches, Steps, Dharma

  Nyogen Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless (2011). “The Iron Flute: 100 Zen Koans”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

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• I was free.  Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life.  Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Running, Stories, Happy Endings

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?

  Steven James

  Teacher, Children, Real

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• I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Idiot, Squat, Teach

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• Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It’s okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It’s just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don’t squander a single minute of it.

  Cassandra King

  Giving, Worry, Enemy

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• The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.

  David Crowe

  Romance, Hawks, Instruments

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• Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game. In fact, given Hinduism's concept of a single truth with multiple physical manifestations one could validly interpret ALL the gods within SMITE to be Hindu. And all gods outside of SMITE as well. Ponder that for a minute. Anyway, going forward SMITE will include even more deities, not fewer.

  Todd Harris

  Inspiration, Games, World

  "Religious group calls for removal of Hindu deities from Hi-Rez's SMITE" by Matt Daniel, www.engadget.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

  Michael Foley

  Men, Islands, Two

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Country, Cities, America

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• Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if youve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

  Anne Dudley

  Way, Lasts, Helping

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• I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder.

  James McCudden

  Watches, Pilots, Saws

  James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.200, Casemate / Greenhill

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• Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

  Thylias Moss

  Alternatives, Emotion, Break

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• The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, I Dont Care

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• Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

  Robert Plant

  Years, Scene, Plant

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• Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Teacher, Morning, Children

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• This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them

  Mark Mason

  Waiting, Looks, Worst

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• I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.

  Nicole Williams

  Past, Men, Forgiving

  Nicole Williams (2012). “Clash”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

  Jessica Zafra

  People, Guy, Theatre

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

  Warren Buffett

  Stupid, Mean, Ideas

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• By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

  Denis Waitley

  Positive Thinking, Acting, Influence

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• Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo
  subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and
  speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.

  Sheikh Abdullah

  Coffee, Writing, Today

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