Seconds Quotes - Page 8

• You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

  Phil Knight

  Simple, Jordan, Shows

  "High-Performance Marketing: An Interview with Nike's Phil Knight" by Phil KnightGeraldine E. Willigan, hbr.org. July 1, 1992.

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• Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal

  Esther Hicks

  Goal, Stronger, Hours

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• My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

  David Lee Roth

  Years, Land, Teach

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• When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, that’s what scares me about the game. I’m a Baptist, but I’m also a quarterback killer, and I ain’t praying with you. But I will give you 30 seconds to ask your Lord and master to keep me from killing you.

  Deacon Jones

  Games, Giving, Guy

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• There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can be a natural landscape untouched by man and I can take one step back and include a guardrail and change the meaning of the picture radically... I can take a picture of a person at one moment and make them look contemplative and photograph them two seconds later and make them look frivolous.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Three, Abstract, Minutes

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• I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

  Camilo Villegas

  Believe, Mean, Starting Over

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• Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

  David Jeremiah

  Wisdom, Doe, Needs

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• ... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Facts

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• I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.

  Simon Neil

  Laughing, Theatre, Want

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• We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Birthday, Anniversary, Book

  "Should I break up with my long-term friend?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2013.

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• It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

  Brad Pitt

  Selfish, Thinking, What If

  "Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer my cell at a movie if it seems urgent?". www.wired.com. July 15, 2009.

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• Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

  Moira Johnston

  Years, Boredom, Directors

  Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books

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• He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

  Selena

  Brother, Halloween, Differences

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• Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

  Clive James

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.

  Anthony Atala

  Tissues, Disease, Patient

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• You can do anything for 30 seconds

  Tony Horton

  Can Do

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• As we grow up we learn that even the person that wasnt supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it gets harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and youll eventually lose someone you love, so take many pictures, laugh too much and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is one minute of happiness you'll never get back.

  Andy Biersack

  Hurt, Growing Up, Heart

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

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• Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

  James Altucher

  Trying, Twenties, Lines

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• It was nobody’s choice. It was a chemical reaction. I had to cut it. It basically fell out. Somebody had said to me that it was just because, you know, you’re trying to make Gail, you know, because she’s just now coming out of the closet…Not even for 2 seconds would we ever do that. It literally was a really bad hair experience.

  Charlotte Sullivan

  Cutting, Hair, Choices

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• One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.

  Felix Baumgartner

  World, Moments, Standing Out

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• Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.

  Len Dawson

  Thinking, Done, World

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