Minutes Quotes - Page 21

• On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

  Hugh Mackay

  Couple, Average, Talking

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• The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

  Gerry Beckley

  Night, Fans, Rewards

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• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  Patrick Marber

  Love Life, Years, Umpires

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• Think about for a minute what your body goes through out there. On a Friday night, you have a steak and then Saturday morning, you get up and have some eggs and some pancakes. Then Sunday, you're on 'Survivor' and suddenly you have nothing.

  Jeff Probst

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

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• Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

  Richard Mitchell

  Wisdom, Simple, Order

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

  Trey Parker

  Funny, Writing, Order

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

  Brett Hoebel

  Commitment, Exercise, Thinking

  "The Biggest Loser 11: Conference Call with New Trainers Brett Hoebel and Cara Castronuova". Interview with RealityWanted, www.realitywanted.com. January 19, 2011.

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• In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Grace, Earth

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• Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure

  Ronald Ross

  Eye, Dark, Science

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• Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

  Adam Gopnik

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
  And in the unlimited limits appear,
  So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
  And in the narrowest limits no limit in here.
  What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
  The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!

  Jacob Bernoulli

  Education, Math, Joy

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• Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back.

  Wubbo Ockels

  Eight, Space, Twenties

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• Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.

  Josephine Tey

  Heart, Games, Rivers

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Song, Kissing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.274, Scholastic Inc.

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• Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.

  Elayne Boosler

  Inspirational, Hair, Ems

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• They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

  Terrence Howard

  Inspirational, Next, Firsts

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• I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Moving, Successful

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• Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Lasts

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• The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

  David O. McKay

  Punctuality, Meetings

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• I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

  Frank Layden

  Leadership, Sports, Giving

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• If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Waste, Investment

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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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