“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.” ThinkingWorldWayWritingKindI CanRealSometimesPlayHoursSeriousMindfulnessCreatingNoticingSuspensionFictional Worlds Author:Antonya Nelson
“I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.” FilmNextHoursMorningFourTelevisionCreatingWake UpGymWakingGrindEighteenHustleSixteenCreating Music Author:Will Smith
“Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.” ThinkingYearsIdeasBigsTodayActionChoicesSpeakHoursDestinyBecomingCreatingConsequenceWho You AreCraftsGiantsOur FutureOur DestinyYour FutureDefiningYour DestinyUnimportantMiniaturesBig IdeasWords You SpeakCreating Your Future Book:The Robin Sharma Pack Source: The Robin Sharma Pack
“I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.” IfsThinkingWorldIdeasInspirationCertainSongHoursProjectsCreatingWhat IfMelodyConcertsTied Author:Jon Foreman
“If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.” IfsMenHas BeensFactsHelpingNightJesusSexChristBornHoursAnswersImpossibleMankindPrideCreatingJesus ChristSakeCrowdsScandalDecency Author:Marie de Gournay
“We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.” JobsHoursCitiesCreatingFlowTicketsTrafficHighwaysGreat JobOklahomaSpeedingInterstateCongestionRush HourOklahoma CityTraffic CongestionSpeeding Tickets Author:Mick Cornett
“The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.” WritingReasonHoursCreatingPercentLifetimeCreating Something Book:Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story
“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.” KnowsTryingYearsRealGuyHoursBrainKnow HowDoubtWeekTalentTelevisionGoes OnCreatingScientistCancerFiftyTobaccoReal Talent Author:Robert Kenner
“North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'” CountryEnoughWaitingHoursHalfWatchesCreatingFortuneInsaneWheelsZoneDictatorKoreaNorth KoreaHalf HoursTime ZonesWheel Of Fortune Author:Conan O'Brien
“If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.” IfsDoeAsksHoursConditionsHonestyCreatingMajorsCustomersCorporationsEmployeeGoodsCeoWorking Conditions Author:Noam Chomsky
“Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.” PeopleShowsTogetherInterestHoursTelevisionFineCreatingJokesSittingSpendingStringsTapeHobbiesTelevision ShowsSitting AroundBangingFunny People Author:Jon Stewart
“When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.” WorldKindBookRealHoursMiddleCreatingReal WorldFadesOutside World Author:Dean Koontz
“That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.” WayShouldRealReasonCoursesStuffHoursBehindsAchieveCreatingIllusionBlowSpendingRationalPreferencePremisesAdjusting Author:Jeffrey Zeldman
“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.” IfsLongArtistStrongProcessHoursInterestingActingKnowingCreationReadyLike YouDisciplineCreatingPreparedBe PreparedVery InterestingLong Hours Author:Jaime King
“[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.” PeopleIfsThinkingCareFunEnjoyUnderstandingHoursInterestingMistakeProductsSkillsCreatingPartnersGatesImmuneGet AheadImmune SystemNew ProductsPeople Skills Author:Bill Gates
“On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.” PeopleWishHoursResultsBalanceCreatingScaredCarefulMinimumSupporterEmployersHiringMinimum WagePart Time Author:Howard Schultz
“I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.” IfsWantNeedsFeelsMovingDesireHoursPleasureDealsFourWeekSixCreatingTwentiesSevenComplainingMoving ForwardEighteenInventingInventing Things Author:Alber Elbaz
“But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?” GivingYearsDoneCommunityHoursPowerfulWonderMysteryMonthsCreatingIllusionWeakLifetimeEach DayPrimitiveBizarreIngeniousLiturgy Author:Nick Hornby
“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.” NeedsShouldMeanTodayPastHoursTomorrowCreatingFlowRiversYesterdayChristmasBridgesInspirational ChristmasChristmas HolidayXmasBest ChristmasMerry Christmas InspirationalChristmas TimeShort ChristmasChristmas JoyChristmas PeaceHappy HourWarm ChristmasFamily Christmas Author:Gladys Taber