“I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.” MindI CanBookSimpleFiveMinutesInformationFive MinutesClutter Author:Albert Einstein
“Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.” KnowsShouldDiesGivenFiveMinutesShould HaveFive Minutes Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity
“I never know what I'm going to wear until five minutes before I go somewhere... I guess I know what I'm comfortable in. I don't know how to describe that, I mean you either put it on and go 'no way' or 'OK, let's go.'” KnowsWayMeanKnow HowFiveMinutesComfortableFive Minutes Author:Kristen Stewart
“Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.” PeopleFeelsSelfFiveMinutesLove YouConsciousHollywoodStudiosSuitsFive MinutesSelf Conscious Author:Eva Green
“If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.” IfsWalksFiveStreetsMinutesFive MinutesObese Author:Carnie Wilson
“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.” ThinkingTryingDifferentShowsProblemFormAsksFiveFourMinutesStartingDrawingDifferent ThingsFive MinutesPlaying MusicStarting Out Author:Demetri Martin
“I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!” GivingWritingSaidStillsWarWholeLastsSufferingFiveCrazyMinutesGunGive MeArmyShockWoundedFive MinutesWipePsychiatrist Author:Jackie Mason
“If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.” IfsTryingWatchesIssuesFiveImagineMinutesBalanceDisasterFive MinutesWatch Me Author:Greg Giraldo
“Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.” KnowsActionCan DoDifferencesIssuesFiveMinutesPleaseSolutionsMaking A DifferenceEducateFive Minutes Author:Matt Damon
“I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by.” FeelsHoursGoneFiveMinutesFive Minutes Author:Fiona Gubelmann
“One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.” FirstsFilmAudienceFiveMinutesGreat ThingsFive Minutes Author:William Mapother
“It's funny, because it's like the fight when you watch it, it's probably going to be like five minutes, but it's taken us like a month to shoot it so I think what was really interesting was that instead of going through an entire fight sequence, you're doing one or two moves over and over and over, so I'd say it's less exhausting than actually training, because you're not really constantly going over the choreography, like the whole entire thing with everybody. You're just doing that one part that they need in the shot.” ThinkingNeedsTwoWholeMovingFightingInterestingWatchesTakenFiveMinutesMonthsTrainingShotsFive MinutesSequenceReally InterestingExhaustingChoreography Author:Ellen Wong
“Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.” SelfWould BeWatchesBreakFiveMinutesWallGrewGrew UpJokesExcitingCurrentsBillionsCynicalFourthFive MinutesMuppet Author:Nicholas Stoller
“The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?” WantMadeFiveWifeMinutesHonorPleaseLiarsFive MinutesYour Honor Author:Christopher Titus
“Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.” KnowsNextFiveMinutesCarStationsFive MinutesClosingBuffets Author:Oscar Wilde
“There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.” WritingRealBeautifulStuffSoundPrinciplesBreakClearFiveMinutesStyleMusicianMusicalBlowHip HopStudiosHipsHopsStringsArrangementsFive MinutesHornsReally BeautifulFunkLushSampling Author:Mos Def
“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.” MenTryingTwoHappensSongCausesFiveWrittenMinutesHavensHeroCallingAngelThirdsRuinsPianoOld ManBitesFive Minutes Author:Francis Dunnery
“It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.” YearsInterestFiveMinutesSellsInvestmentRateConvinceFive MinutesInterest RatePreferred Stock Author:Warren Buffett
“I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.” IfsFeelsYearsWould BePoliticalNextStrongFiveMinutesJokesFive MinutesOutdatedPolitical Jokes Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.” WalksStepsFiveMinutesTerribleConflictFive MinutesTerrible Things Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.” PeopleWantNeedsWholeFacesStuffProcessSoundHoursFiveMinutesFineGoes OnPainfulEightYour FaceTapeAwkwardCastingFive MinutesAdjustmentDraining Author:Mike Judge
“As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.” LooksActorsWalksRoomsFiveMinutesDirectorsAuditionsCastingFive MinutesCasting Directors Author:Mark Duplass
“My concept was, within the five-minute video, for people to see one million Buddhas. So I made a group of the images and it keeps accelerating to reach this one million point. The movie was invented from the still photos.” PeopleMadeStillsMillionsFiveGroupsMinutesConceptsVideoFive Minutes Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“It is easier to be gay at this very moment than it was five minutes ago. It is just constantly getting better, and it's wonderful.” MomentsFiveWonderfulMinutesEasierGayGet BetterFive Minutes Author:Guy Branum
“Yes, it leads people to believe that they have more information than our cops, but then, at some point, before you know it, you're both caught up. Everybody, when they're watching the who-dun-it shows, is making guesses in the first five minutes anyway. We just kind of give them what they want.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingFirstsBelieveKindShowsFiveMinutesInformationCaughtCopCaught UpFive Minutes Author:Kristin Lehman
“What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.” PeopleFeelsStillsSeemsLeftFiveAirMinutesSeriesFinalsEightSettingVideoFlightSettingsPlanesRoutineSecondsGravityFive MinutesComets Author:Damian Kulash
“HeartMath found that five minutes of feeling love and care can strengthen your immune system for up to six hours, whereas five minutes of feeling angry can weaken and suppress the immune system for six hours. Love releases very powerful, beneficial chemicals into the body.” FeelingsBodyCareFoundHoursPowerfulFiveMinutesSixAngryReleaseChemicalsFive MinutesBeneficialVery PowerfulImmuneImmune SystemLove And CareFeeling Angry Author:Marci Shimoff
“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingYearsMindChildrenRealLastsFatherDecisionBehindsCompanyFiveMinutesGiving UpBuiltSickOur ChildrenDollarsBunchOur WorldFive MinutesGreat PowerMaking DecisionsSidelinesBusiness World Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going for the quick thrill, rather than spending time concentrating on my voice. I figured I'd get on, make as many quick movement as possible, dance my ass off for five minutes, move into the insult portion of the evening, and then, at the end, create some kind of chaos until the 55 minutes were up.” KindEndsMovingVoiceRealizingFiveMinutesStupidMovementChaosSpendingAssEveningInsultPortionsThrillFive MinutesImplicationsConcentratingSpending Time Author:Iggy Pop
“Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.” WorldWayFirstsDoneWholeLastsFiveWeekMinutesTheaterWarmWhole WorldUnusualFive MinutesVansRehearsalSurrealCrucible Author:Saoirse Ronan
“People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.” PeopleWayAttentionFiveMinutesHugeListeningWindowPatientSecondsFive Minutes Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.” WantTryingImportantAsksEasyCompanyClearFiveFocusMinutesPerspectiveKeysBusyProductivityObjectivesDesksEmailFive MinutesDeckClearingPrioritization Author:Ivanka Trump
“My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.” FirstsGuyNextSilenceFiveTeamMinutesNew YorkTerribleIceBrokeSatInterviewsBusFive MinutesRangersFirst Date Author:Steve Rushin
“Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is fighting.” IfsBigsFightingSportsFiveMinutesCanadaHockeyFive Minutes Author:Jeremy Hotz
“I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.” KnowsLooksRunningWaterFiveMinutesDangerShadowLeavingCalmFlashFive MinutesRunning Water Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.” WaitingFiveMinutesFashionPicksPhonesFive MinutesIpads Author:Donna Karan
“At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.” WellsHoursPracticeFiveMeditationMinutesTwentiesEach DayFive MinutesShowing UpCentering Author:Dani Shapiro
“Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."” LongSaidTwoShowsFiveMinutesGoes OnJokesBoredFive Minutes Author:Eric Andre
“Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.” WorldFightingAbilityFiveMinutesVictoryArmyFive Minutes Author:Duke of Wellington
“By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.” FiveFansMinutesEngagingFive MinutesLifelong Author:Billy Lawrence
“It's also giving back to the community that put us all there in the first place. Priest wouldn't be here without the support of the fans. As soon as I joined the band [ Judas Priest], I got it straight away. Especially in my situation, since I've only been here five minutes. I was a fan.” GivingFirstsCommunitySituationSupportFiveFansMinutesBandPriestsFive MinutesGiving BackJudasJudas Priest Author:Richie Faulkner
“Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.” TryingLittlesTwoCoursesSoundHoursFiveCuttingMinutesConcernedTwentiesInstanceFive MinutesSequenceElevenTwenty FiveEleven MinutesAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.” IssuesFiveMinutesLike YouLaborElectionReportsProfessorsFive MinutesRepresentingElection DayI Like YouLabor Day Author:Ralph Nader
“My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it," and he's like, "OK, I haven't even finished my popcorn and you ruined it for me."” FiveMinutesHavensQuietHusbandFinishedMy HusbandRuinedFive MinutesPopcorn Author:Nancy Grace
“You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.” PlayFiveMinutesGiftedFive Minutes Author:Judd Nelson
“Videoing, lifting it, prodding it, and five minutes later they might even eat it! That first approach to the naked eye is crucial, so when you see pictures coming through on your social media, it does push you to be a little more creative and raise the bar a little bit higher.” FirstsLittlesDoeMightEyeSocialBitsCreativeFiveMinutesMediaHigherApproachLittle BitRaisesSocial MediaBarsNakedCrucialFive MinutesLiftingRaising The BarNaked Eyes Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.” YearsTwoBigsFivePiecesMinutesIllusionTwo YearsFive Minutes Author:David Copperfield
“When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.” KnowsYearsTwoLevelsBehindsQualityFiveMinutesPreparationTwo YearsFive Minutes Author:David Copperfield
“If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.” IfsHeartSongFiveMinutesPopsFive MinutesCrushedBleedingPop Song Author:Jason Diamond
“I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.” IfsDifferentLightCertainCoursesInterestFiveMinutesDecidedDifferent ThingsCaptureFive MinutesLabsAperture Author:Jean-Luc Godard