Seconds Quotes - Page 20

• That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

  Brendan Rodgers

  Important, Balls, Six

  "Brendan Rodgers: Spain have been a great model for me over many years". Interview With Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2012.

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• We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying

  Kris Allen

  Dying, Ems, Chance

  FaceBook post by Kris Allen from Feb 17, 2013

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• It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Struggle, Writing

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• Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

  Tom Waits

  Running, Age, Stories

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• Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

  John Lydon

  Love, Two, Sound

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• I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Rushing, Space

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• As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Writing, Moon

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• I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

  Cary Ann Hearst

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  Daniel Ek

  Song, News, Matter

  "Spotify's Daniel Ek: 'We want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create'". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed [the song] together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the board turning knobs. The atmosphere and the vibe down there was just super cool.

  Alex da Kid

  Song, Home, Artist

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• I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

  Klaus Kinski

  Years, Bed, Three

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

  Robert De Niro

  Reputation, Lifetime, Knows

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• Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the
  first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their
  blade, the length of their arms, etc.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Encounters, Needs, Use

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Moving

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 10, 2017

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• I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

  Don Adams

  Names, Wife, Three

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• Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Health, Malaria

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• If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

  Janine Benyus

  New Year, Nature, Animal

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• Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

  Baudouin of Belgium

  Peace, War, Men

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Swings, Practice

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing

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• You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

  Pat Summitt

  Perseverance, Winning, Games

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.100, Crown Business

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• I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds

  Sean Avery

  Falling In Love, Hockey, Nhl

  Sean Avery (2017). “Offside: My Life Crossing the Line”, p.237, Penguin

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• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Church Bells, Years

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.25, Vintage

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• Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you." Mackenzie smiled. "When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live." Cole chuckled, saying, "Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic." "Oh, oh." Kat clapped excitedly. "There used to be a street named after Ali Bell, but it was changed because nobody crosses Ali Bell and lives. True story.

  Gena Showalter

  Play, Space, Giving

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