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“If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?”

Ifs Looks Hands Vision Seeing Tree Minutes Movement Training Train Senses Clock Perceive Slow Down Puddles

Author:Colin Wilson

“The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.”

Humans Mean Science Race Intelligent Clock Human Race Tick

Author:James Jeans

“To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But how can you know that students have learned without spending hours correcting tests and papers? . . . check students understanding while you are teaching (not at 10 o'clock at night when you're correcting papers) so you don't move on with unlearned material that can accumulate like a snowball and eventually engulf the student in confusion and despair.”

Knows Moving Night Understanding Hours Teaching Havens Students Taught Materials Despair Paper Tests Educational Spending Checks Confusion Clock Papers Correcting Snowball

Author:Madeline Hunter

“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.”

Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert.”

Writing Littles Two Reality Speak Voice Morning Quiet Desert Clock Necks Candle Inner Voice Shiver Chanting Incense

Author:Carlos Santana

“I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.”

Years Book Dream Prove East Strikes Clock Thirty Far Away My Thoughts Thirty Years Ohio Columbus

Book:Conversations with James Thurber

Source: Conversations with James Thurber

“The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.”

Reality Waiting Growing Late Clock Folds Growing Old

Author:Ben Folds

“We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.”

Ifs Real Earth Mines Mountain Weight Increase Bottom Attraction Faster Clock Statistics Decrease

Author:Francis Bacon

“You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.”

Way Two Found New York London Clock Aviation Another Way Airline

Author:David Frost

“Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.”

Turns Starting Brands Clock Zero Honey New Day Brand New Starting Up Brand New Day

Book:Sting (Songbook)

Source: Sting (Songbook)

“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”

Want Doe Care Love Is Baby Accounts Rounds Obvious Protection Rings Lust Clock Candle Dictator Joints Vow Baby Love Scented Candles

Book:The Bone Clocks

Source: The Bone Clocks

“The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.”

Knows Firsts Three Morning Walking Office Down And Eight Miles Clock Islands Telephones Incidents Wednesday Three Mile Island

Author:William Scranton

“Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?”

Knows World May Children Moments Faces Forever Childhood Strikes Clock

Book:The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana

Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana

“The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.”

Children Persons Actors Interesting Morning Special Clock Nurse Most Interesting Policemen

Book:Christopher Morley's Philadelphia

Source: Christopher Morley's Philadelphia

“It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.”

Inspirational Funny Battle Fingers Clock Entertaining Athletics Bloopers

Author:David Coleman

“I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.”

Thinking Should Trying Years Kind Children Ideas Wanted Felt Five Plans Clock Five Years Prisoner Five Year Plans Clock Ticking Biological Clock

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.”

Thinking Years School Dad Army Moved My Dad Bored Clock

Author:Ridley Scott

“I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.”

Believe Wells Hours Sleep Worry Bed Get Up Clock Alarms Up Early Alarm Clocks Sleep Well

Author:Michel Ocelot

“I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.”

Ifs Writing Trying Littles Book Matter Hands Bits Hours Demand Little Bit Beats No Matter What Clock Engaged Unconscious Flu

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma.”

Ifs Want Mean Different Enough Body Wish Sleep Bed Clock Grandma Enough Sleep

Author:Agyness Deyn

“At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.”

People Way Feels Mean Happens Speak Felt Morning Negative Studios Feel Good Mess Clock

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.”

Has Beens Race Caught Speed Convinced Architecture Core Clock Apples Caught Up

Author:Marques Brownlee

“Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?”

Humans Whole Earth Limits Available Clock Realms Reaching Human Experience Time On Earth Biological Clock Reaching Back

Author:David McCullough

“A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.”

Poor Clock Substitutes Buttons Alarms Alarm Clocks Inspirational Office Snooze Button

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.”

Wells Hard Three Land Nine Clock Zero Afternoon Muddy Lagoons

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...”

Want Years Stills Two Boys Clock Instant Southern Afternoon July Fourteen Intruders

Author:William Faulkner

“Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.”

Space Clock Digital

Book:Ratner's Star

Source: Ratner's Star

“Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.”

“I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.”

Night Four Week Bed Commitment Heavy Eight Clock Trapped Psychotherapy

Author:Howard Stern

“The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.”

Way Age Clock Digital Messed Up Digital Age

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.”

People Thinking Wind Clock

Author:Charles Roven

“Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.”

Giving Years Hands Brain Cases Wind Keys Angel Clock Birthday Resurrection Seventies

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

“Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.”

Years Moments Four Hundred Clock

Book:Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart

Source: Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart

“A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!”

Has Beens Night Waiting Fine Strikes Clock Precise Midnight Fine Day

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world.”

“I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long.”

Thinking Knows Long Might Would Be Running Film Process Deals Morning Laughing Know How Stage Difficulty Eight Crafts Clock Spontaneity Precision Chuckles

Author:Colin Firth

“When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.”

Position Tough Clock Phenomenon Tough Times

Author:Dan Harmon

“No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !”

Passion Needed Clock My Passion Alarms Alarm Clocks

Author:Kyrie Irving

“In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.”

Kids School Trouble Students Authority High School Bigger Clock Bombs Devices Texas Arrested High School Students

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!”

Ifs Speak Silence Planets Moon Wake Up Disappear Strikes Clock Midst Twelve Midnight Mist Owl Tranquillity Hedgehogs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.”

People Feels Doe Play Roles Clock Waking Alarms Lullaby Alarm Clocks

Author:Debby Ryan

“We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.”

Should Goes On Fortune Strive Clock Misfortunes Thunderstorm

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.”

Men Sleep Trouble Six Get Up Clock Insomnia

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.”

Want Eye Community Minutes Fame Normal Clock Public Eye

Author:Tim Howard

“Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.”

Wells Looks Two Matter Together Moving Night Loses Natural Ability Deals Talent Skills Combination Clock Look Up Two Things Losing Yourself Something You Love Natural Ability

Author:George Lucas

“The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.”

Thinking Stories Bigs Running Cities Five Paper News Murder Towns Photographer University Newspapers Clock Chicago Reporters Papers Scandal Juicy

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.”

People Sleep Morning Blow Surrender Clock Alarms Haste Alarm Clocks

Author:Milan Kundera

“I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.”

Firsts Persons Whole Shows Sleep Morning Five Clock Paragraph

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for their future. If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators. But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God.”

Ifs World Two Stories Eye Parent Concerned Thirds Clock Pockets Digital Boots Expecting Alas Story Of My Life Godmother Calculators

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.”

Men May Young Certain Enjoy Pleasure Five Habit Six Dresses Suits Evening Clock Young Man Dropping Slipping Drawbacks

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

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