“I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.” PeopleWorldPersonsVoiceImagineMinutesAmountNegativeComparison Author:Jessie J
“In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.” IfsLongTermNumbersMinutesAmountExtraordinary Author:Wallace Shawn
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.” IfsWorldShouldYearsRunningPurposeSufferingUniverseEvilNaturalAnimalAliveMinutesDyingDesignEvolutionAmountDiseasePropertySpeciesBottomSentencesIndifferenceContemplationDecentTake MeThirstNatural WorldStarvationParasitesGod Delusion Author:Richard Dawkins
“I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.” HateMinutesAmountClothingsIncapableAirportsPacking Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.” KnowsMadeMightTakenMinutesAmountAdvantageSellingGossipConsideringTaken Advantage Author:Anne Hathaway
“If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.” IfsWantWritingTryingTwoHoursMinutesFiguresAmountPicksTwentiesDesksSpares Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.” PeopleStatesPainFoundWaterAnimalUnitedKnownTechnologyUnited StatesMinutesProductsAmountFindingsResearchPlantEnvironmentalYesterdayTreatmentOnlineDozenSiteJournalSurveysHormonesScience And TechnologyPlants And AnimalsAntibioticsEnvironmental Science Author:Andrew Revkin
“It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.” ImportantMinutesMaterialsAmountScreens Author:Christopher Walken
“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
“So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.” IfsLongBookDifferentFormDiesReadingStuffMorningSeeingWeekMinutesAmountGet UpGymSchedulesEmbarrassingEmailUrgentTweetKindlesServer Author:Maria Popova
“The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same amount of time, however, to tell people, 'It's good to see you again. I'm sorry we only have a minute to talk,' as it does to say, 'I don't have time to talk with you' period.” PeopleDoeHappensRunningMinutesCryAmountPeriodsShameGood ThingsSorryThings HappenI'm SorryYou Again Author:Barbara Mandrell
“When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.” MinutesFrontsAmountCamerasAdd Author:Norman Reedus