Minutes Quotes - Page 35

• After several minutes, picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Feel that you have become the infinite blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Blue, Sky, Body

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• Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Children, Break Through

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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• If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

  Esther Hicks

  Two, Temptation, Duress

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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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• If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

  Harry Shearer

  Lasts, Sticks, Figures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.

  Michael Loceff

  Scripts, Timing, Originals

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Cutting, Directors, Consistent

  Source: collider.com

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• I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.

  Kid Cudi

  Weed, People, Bumps

  "Kid Cudi: Mad Man On The Moon". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. September 17, 2010.

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• SEX! Now that I have your attention... Please try to meditate at least 15 minutes, every day. You know it's good for you.

  Marcelo Goianira

  Sex, Inspiration, Practice

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• Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

  Marcel Proust

  Expression, Giving, May

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.575, Modern Library

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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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• Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.

  George Carlin

  Book, Writing, Eight

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• To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Reality, Attention

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.309

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• Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Elements, World

  "Futurism," ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, 2008.

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• The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

  William Cowper

  Reading, Hem, Fifteen

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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• To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Circumstances

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East”, p.124

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• Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

  William Stafford

  Memories, Buckets, Just Being

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.98, Macmillan

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• The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

  Stephen Leacock

  Wisdom, Men, Interesting

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• You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.

  Frank Sinatra

  Good Night, Steps, Balls

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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Trying, Frogs

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• The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

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  Ram Dass

  Power, Want, Be Here Now

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• A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

  Tom Robbins

  Song, Art, Fall

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• The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

  Paul Gauguin

  Time, Artist, Years

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

  Lillian Hellman

  War, Struggle, Ties

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