“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.” WantFirstsLittlesTwoCharacterNightActorsPrayerLaughingFiveMinutesStageDemandStartingStakesBroadwayFive MinutesExitStarting Out Author:Charles Kimbrough
“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.” ThinkingBelieveKidsWantedJobsStuffSportsCommunityCitiesPathMinutesMediaNew YorkFieldsDemandBaseballBallsLeavingHittingGoing OutCatchingSeattleNarrow PathBaseball Field Author:Alex Rodriguez
“from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.” PastFilmNextUnited StatesMinutesDemandNewsFilledSpeedAlcoholCurseCarrieNew ThingsThrillersOne MinuteNewnessSensationalHonorary Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“We are all drawn to problems and solving problems. Joy doesn't demand our time. So we have to mark that time on our schedules. That's the only way you are going to get it. Five minutes, three times a day in your schedule. That's doable.” WayProblemJoyThreeFiveMinutesDemandMarkOur TimeProblem SolvingSchedulesThree TimesFive Minutes Author:Bonnie St. John
“The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.” FirstsCharacterFilmThreeDealsAttitudeAudienceMinutesDemandAmbitionFormalEntrancesCredulityGateways Author:Peter Greenaway
“As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the system. Let's invest more."” WaitingCompanyMinutesDemandHey Author:Mohamed El-Erian