Minutes Quotes - Page 8

• There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

  Steve Yzerman

  Team, Fall, Old Things

  ING Sports interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Wish

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• There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?

  Clifford Odets

  Giving, Months, Give Me

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• Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Real, Men, Games

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• The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

  Jimmy Connors

  Thinking, Games, Tennis

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• If I'm having a challenging moment, I jump for joy. Literally. After a minute, I feel better, and after a few minutes, I'm really happy. Everything else just drops off. It gets me out of my head and into my body, and it makes me feel present. Everyone has challenges. But if you know your strengths and expand on them, you’re going to radiate.

  Miranda Kerr

  Feel Better, Joy, Challenges

  "Miranda Kerr: 'Happiness Is a Choice We Make'" by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, people.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Work, Trying, Waste

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.84

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• We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Mean, Artist

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• Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Long, Waiting

  Cornelia Funke (2013). “The Thief Lord”, p.114, Chicken House

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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• The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

  Len Deighton

  Watches, Saboteurs, Impossible

  Len Deighton (1964). “Funeral In Berlin”

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• For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Lap, Way

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• As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

  David Blaine

  Kids, People, Miracle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Laughter, Sleep, Laughing

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.

  Rajon Rondo

  Believe, Play, Effort

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• Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It "had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat."' If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people!

  James E. Faust

  Running, Spiritual, Past

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• People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Children, Years, People

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• You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

  George Carlin

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

  Steve Scott

  Running, Firsts, Miles

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• I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!

  Patti Stanger

  Inspirational, Dance, Zumba

  "Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's Weight-Loss Secrets". Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com.

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• The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

  Kobo Abe

  Feet, Doubt, Shakes

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• I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Jobs, War

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• An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

  Bruce Barton

  Leadership, Business, Goes On

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• If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

  Gail Kelly

  Soccer, Business, Women

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