“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.” IfsStillsPastWaitingHoursPrayerLossMinutesIllusionInheritanceCompoundsCalendarsUnfinishedRosary Book:99 Poems: New & Selected Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.” WayBelieveTimeHoursLossPayAttentionQualityMinutesMythIntenseErasPay AttentionMotheringOne MinuteQuality Time Book:Making Sense Source: Making Sense
“It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.” ThinkingLossDecisionSituationSeeingMinutesExerciseTenIntellectualGainsRationalBridgesBeing The BestCalculationsRatiosWeighingNew Situations Author:Warren Buffett
“Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.” WayLifeYearsWellsTwoSometimesDoneBeautifulMy OwnLossStepsMinutesSonMy FamilySavedFortyTwo YearsTargetMy SonBeautiful ThingsMy Own LifeEvery StepHere I Am Author:John Travolta
“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."” WayLosesLossRoomsResponsibilityMinutesTalentAmountWasteCorporateEmployeeProductiveFamily Responsibility Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.” FeelsBodyNextLossMinutesMissingArmsSickSensationsThrowingOne MinuteSpleenThrowing Up Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.” KindTwoNightGamesWinningGoalLossFourMinutesParticularDrinkTenComputerVariousPursueCardsDistractionMasteryMailSurfingFascinationTobaccoStreaksPlugsWins And LossesDosage Book:Farther Away: Essays Source: Farther Away: Essays