“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.” IfsThinkingDoeDoneCharacterFeelingsHomeReadingActorsFunHoursRoomsMorningDesignListeningWalkingExerciseSkillsInternalsHotelSomething NewListening To MusicGigsWheatSeparatingHotel Rooms Author:Colin Farrell
“You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.” PeopleThinkingTwoHardAmericaHoursTalkingMoralMarriedThings To DoPullingSpouseAdviseHard Things Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“One night I couldn't sleep. It was like 2:00 in the morning. I was thinking, 'What can I do?' I'm watching TV. I'm like, 'Let me do something else.' I'm not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall I felt psychotic. So, I went with watching more TV. I couldn't come up with anything. I was going, 'God, read a book.' Then I was like this, 'Where do I keep the books?' I've got nothing to do but watch TV.” ThinkingBookKidsNightFallFeltHoursSleepWatchesMorningKnowingTvsLet MeCome UpHallsHobbiesOne NightMasturbationPsychoticWatching Tv Author:Adam Sandler
“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindPersonsIdeasHelpingGovernmentMightJobsCertainHoursFiveFourWeekOfficeCapableAreasGood IdeasDistributionMonstrousReceiptsGovernment Jobs Author:Grace Slick
“Surfing is a huge passion of mine. I'm and addict to it in a sense. I think it is a good addiction. I spend about anywhere from two to eight hours a day in the water when I am home. I enjoy competing and traveling. I don't know, I just like being in the ocean and enjoying God's creation. Just the adrenaline you get and its good exercise you get at the same time.” ThinkingKnowsTwoHomePassionEnjoyWaterHoursCreationMinesHugeExerciseOceanAddictionEightCompetingAddictSurfingAdrenalineGod's CreationGood Exercise Author:Bethany Hamilton
“I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.” ThinkingWayBelieveLooksArtFactsSeemsFormHoursAttitudeModernPossibilityPromiseConstantGenuineEntitlementDon't TrustSense Of Entitlement Author:Chris Ware
“Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.” ThinkingYearsMayHeavenEnjoyHoursDelightAnother YearHappy Hour Author:Horace
“...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?” ThinkingMenFeelsFirstsSaidEndsStoriesLastsThreeHoursSawsBuildingThirdsFellowsEightThe End Of The DayFeel BetterBricksCathedralsIrritatedMaking A LivingBricklayers Author:Bill Vaughan
“Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.” ThinkingShouldChildrenLongMatterShowsParentHoursTeacherWeekResearchProgramStartingEngagedYou ChooseTherapists Author:Temple Grandin
“I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingKindEndsHardHappensLife IsBitsHoursFocusMagicCreationHard WorkInvolvedAreasAppreciateTinyBoredWorking ItFulfillingWireCogs Author:Diane Ackerman
“I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.” ThinkingTwoEyeRealizingHoursHairWake UpMagazinesBagsMakeupPlusPimplesCindyHair And MakeupRetouching Author:Cindy Crawford
“I don't remember what script it was, but at the Monday table read, the [opening] teaser didn't work.We went back and had to think of a new teaser, and [after] four hours, five hours, we weren't landing on anything.And it was probably Glen [Charles] who said, "What are we, cowards?" You had to do it, no matter how long it took.” ThinkingLongSaidMatterRememberHoursFiveFourTablesScriptsOpeningCowardMondayLandingTeasers Author:David Lee
“For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.” ThinkingTwoPastRememberHoursDifferencesBrainMinutesDetailsMeaningfulBulletsVisualizationMost MeaningfulPositive Experiences Author:Shawn Achor
“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
“To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don't think you can do the work - the five or six hours of working out a day - if you don't have a clear goal or know why you're doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible.” IfsThinkingKnowsGoalCan DoHoursClearFiveImpossibleSixTrainWork OutHanging OutGymClear Goals Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.” ThinkingGivingHoursMy FavoriteCoffeeCupsMakeupTime To ThinkCoffee Cup Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.” ThinkingSeemsArtistDiesHoursPassingPassings Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen
“In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep the extermination of the Jews in memory even at my happiest hour.” IfsThinkingMayHandsNamesHoursMemoriesForgetSticksJewTongueCeaseThink Of YouJerusalemPalateExtermination Author:Menachem Begin
“Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.” ThinkingWritingLittlesDoeWould BeYoungWishHoursWiseIdentityCallingHealthyActivityOneselfSatisfiedPornographyBeing WiseVerbsNouns Author:Lorrie Moore
“When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongMomentsSeemsLastsTimeHoursInternetLong TimeHundredYears AgoConstantPhonesContactUnitsMobileTime PassesMobile PhonesUpdatesTrivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!” ThinkingWorldWayBelieveWellsLongSeemsTimeValuesI BelieveHoursDifferencesFiveFeetMinutesStrangeWeightNineInstanceFasterFortyPoundsRomeKillersTwelveInchesSixtySixteenHealerSixty Minutes Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.” ThinkingTryingHardAbleHouseHoursMorningClearPhonesScreensHonestlyNotebookCafes Author:Jami Attenberg
“Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.” ThinkingFeelingsAgeHoursSleepCommonMusic IsContraryCommon SenseWakingSolace Author:Mark Heard
“My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.” ThinkingWritingImportantEndsSometimesWantedUsedMotherReadingHoursLettersStealingThe End Of The DayThievesTailsMidnightSneakKnittingReading Or Writing Author:Marita Golden
“But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.” IfsThinkingMenFeelsLittlesLostHoursHe ManInvolvedArchitectureFantasticSmallestChapel Author:Paul Bettany
“I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensKidsHoursCareersAirMomBallsPrioritiesFriendlyFlexibility Author:Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.” ThinkingHoursHalfAudienceToo MuchAnxietyNotionPretentious Author:Jean Dujardin
“I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.” PeopleThinkingTwoPlayHoursDarkHalfJokesMannersInvitesRetiredHalf HoursBad Manners Author:Bill Nighy
“I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.” ThinkingTwoIdeasNightHoursSleepWorryBabyNo SleepGreat Night Author:Billy Crystal
“I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTwoHouseHoursSpaceSafeSafetyEntertainmentScaryExcited Author:Keri Russell
“Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.” ThinkingMenHandsDifficultHoursWatchesProgressPerceptionWestWesternEvolveClockSecond Hand Author:David Lynch
“I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.” IfsThinkingHas BeensRealWould BeGirlHoursDarkWonderfulTheaterReal LoveGlamorousAnchorsFemmeFemme FataleMarquee Author:Eve Arden
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” ThinkingMenLongChangeHoursMistakeHalfRemains Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking "What am I going to talk about today?"” ThinkingKnowsTwoTodayHoursWorryWeekMonthsDrivingTherapyOne TimeEntertaining Author:Justin Kirk
“I'm a huge fan of Warner Brothers cartoons. I would spend many hours alone after school watching Daffy Duck. I think Daffy Duck is one of the great comedic villains.” ThinkingSchoolHoursBrotherVillainCartoonComedicAfter School Author:Roger Bart
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.” ThinkingMenBookReadingHoursInstrumentsScholarIdleAmerican ScholarIdle Time Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success” ThinkingBelieveHumansSelfDreamValuesHoursNaturalChallengesDifferencesHellFocusWeekIdealsEntrepreneurTendenciesAnalysisMeritOddsAssessmentWishful ThinkingTenaciousSelf Analysis Author:Elon Musk
“The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksKindHoursPracticeFourFieldsTenComplexesPatternsBe GoodChessConsistentPlaying ChessNeurosurgeons Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.” IfsThinkingWellsTwoImportantHardFeelingsThreeEasyHoursForgetHard WorkFitHealthyAspectExtras Author:Richard Branson
“The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If its coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?” IfsThinkingShouldSeemsGovernmentOrderHoursLevelsCrazyConceptsGatesWhy NotMinimumMinimum Wage Author:Malcolm Wallop
“I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.” ThinkingMindJobsFoundHouseHoursDealsStressClientsSiteDealing With Stress Author:Sandy Gallin
“I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.” ThinkingFeelsKindRememberYoungHoursInstrumentsNotesToneViolinResonance Author:Andrew Bird
“Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'” ThinkingI CanSelfCan DoHoursDoubtFineStudiosUselessTormentI Can Do ItSelf-doubtConning Author:Imogen Heap
“Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.” IfsThinkingWellsJobsPassionHoursPayActivityPicksEconomicsTradeAssumingBoringPlanningLeisureTime OffTrade OffsPassion For Work Author:Emily Oster
“If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.” IfsThinkingWritingWellsI CanHoursTwelveRevising Author:Francine Prose
“I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsFunnyHoursHalfMorningSonHumorousClockVisibleVersesUnclesAttemptingDrankWhiskeyTime To ThinkSupperInsensibleMahogany Book:The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
“Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanFatherHoursTalkingSonCitizensOne DayHusbandMusicianVotePlaying MusicWriting Music Author:Herbie Hancock
“Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.” ThinkingShowsHomeCertainHoursEffortAudienceObjectsWitnessIntimacyPerformingLenses Author:Stephen Colbert
“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.” ThinkingWayTryingChildrenDoeHomeHappensCareDifficultHoursHealingHalfToo MuchMeditationModernOne DayYogaTake CareJust OneEtcUnfortunateModern SocietyHalf HoursGadgetsNon Stop Author:Maya Tiwari
“The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.” ThinkingFeelsImportantStoriesFilmHoursEmotionWatchesMusic IsCrucialTomsAnimatedJerryAnimated FilmsTom And Jerry Author:Rihanna