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“We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.”

Said Matter Facts Hours Gone Minutes Moved Matter Of Fact Another Day Tomorrow Is Another Day

Book:City

Source: City

“I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.”

Knows Men Made Wanted Next Fun Hours Careers Practice College Goes On Piano Grandmother Smarter My Grandmother Scholarship

Author:Jamie Foxx

“You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low. You can talk to someone else for an hour and just feel fine.”

Feels Persons Hours Five Minutes Fine Lows Sick Five Minutes Auras Drained

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.”

Writing Hours Novel Week

Author:Dean Koontz

“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”

Writing Years Hours Imagination Novel Streets Land Borders Shopping Factories Workplace Unreal Cathedrals Expeditions

Book:An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

“What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.”

People Earth Humanity Hours Buddhism Waste Toxic Traffic Dump After Hours Toxic Waste

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.”

Ifs Mind Happiness Hours Five Meditation Minutes Buddhism Walking Focused Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.”

People Has Beens Asks Hours Business Week Involved Lucky Luck Average Finance Batting

Author:Armand Hammer

“Now's the day and now's the hour.”

Life Inspirational Hours Positive

Author:Robert Burns

“I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.”

Writing Hours Worry Eight Biting Knuckles

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Enough Helping Found Hours Dinner Productive Enough Time Sneaking Up

Author:Michael Crichton

“When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.”

Next Felt Hours Player Periods Bed Tired Recovery Session

Author:Jonah Lomu

“Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.”

House Hours Walks Half Five Minutes Rocks Five Minutes Parades Half Hours

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Book Ends Enough Stuff Hours Five Too Much Cutting Adapted

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.”

Home Sides Hours West Hanging Out Coming Home Apartment West Side

Author:Joe Scarborough

“I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.”

Thinking Hours Limits Speed Miles Brainstorming Speed Limits Good Thinking

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.”

Shows Fun Hours Air Goes On Scene Twelve Animated

Author:Matt Stone

“Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.”

World Wells Might Hours Kindness Minutes Style Generosity Generosity And Kindness

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.”

Speak Hours

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.”

Enough Stuff Hours Acting Passionate Hours In The Day

Author:Aaron Tveit

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

Ifs Two Matter Whole Hours Lines Half No Matter What Backgrounds Half Hours

Author:Aaron Tveit

“I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.”

Knows Feels Years Two Bigs Passion Lost Hours Loses Car Add Stuck Lots Of Money Traffic My Passion Stuck In Traffic

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.”

Men World Inspirational Funny Lost Hours Records Ten Entertaining Cried Athletics World Records Bloopers Decathlon

Author:Daley Thompson

“You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.”

Way Whole Hours Quality Bigger One Way

Author:Lili Taylor

“I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.”

Night Hours Sleep Six

Author:James Franco

“I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.”

Has Beens Hard Hours Week Six Training Foundation Seven

Author:Alicia Vikander

“I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.”

Ifs Mean Shows Hours Flats Shrinks Fees Billing

Author:Bruce Vilanch

“I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.”

Writing Important Used Winning Hours Rooms Race Four Coffee Used To Be Breakfast Steady Days Off Pajamas Slow And Steady

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.”

Needs Writing I Can Hours My Own Masters Couple Solitude Computer Chapters

Author:Stuart Woods

“Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.”

Country Hours Middle Car Miles Officers Thick Middle Of The Road Wild Ride

Author:Amy Weber

“Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.”

Said Stills America Hours Kings Worship Luther

Author:Barney Frank

“My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.”

World Firsts Looks Said Wanted Hours Like You Dad My Dad Congratulations

Author:Lee Westwood

“It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?”

Thinking Knows Men Three Hours Quarters Halfway

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.”

Kids Courses Winning Hours Masters Green Golf Locals Golf Course Sinking

Author:Mike Weir

“I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.”

Ifs Hours Half Scripts Sitcom Half Hours

Author:Sela Ward

“That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.”

Way Hours Records Strange Mood Remembered Strange Things

Author:Adam Yauch

“Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.”

Opportunity Hours Clock

Author:Claire Danes

“If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.”

Ifs Way Giving Persons Ends Life Is Sides Hours Dark Levels Angry Exhausted Lowest Dark Side Breaking Things

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.”

People Way Hours Practice Meditation Buddhism Listening Technique Sunset Formal Listening To Music Athletics Participating Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.”

Ifs Two Light Hours Focus Meditation Buddhism Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.”

Long Hours Labor Unions Wages Labor Union Working Long Hours

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.”

“Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.”

Hours Progress Plans Months Activity Perseverance Planning Enthusiasm Organized Perserverance Wellspring

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.”

Ideas Whole Hours Visualization

Book:The Magic of Believing

Source: The Magic of Believing

“One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.”

Christian Heaven Hours Christian Inspirational Ashamed One Hour

Author:Vance Havner

“I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.”

“Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.”

Time Hours Education Minutes Empty Bottom Holes Emptiness Wasting Time Buckets Wasted Time Don't Waste Your Time Lost Time Empty Vessels

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.”

Ifs Looks Long Enough Change Hours Week Glimpse Valentine's Day Immature Happy Day

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.”

People Needs Asks Hours Rooms Election Phones Managers Candidates Financing

Author:Al Franken

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