“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.” KnowsWayEyeKidsFallEasyGrowthHoursOur LivesMinutesWasteDisappearGrantedClockColourMelodyPaleFifthSymphonyAvenuesRise And FallEvergreensFifth AvenueClock TickingNew GrowthLimestone Book:A Short Guide to a Happy Life Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear” YearsLongWrittenMinutesPaperYears AgoFilledDisappearThirtyAbandonedLong AgoYardsMasterpieceDungeonsHandwritingBastille Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.” LongHas BeensPlansMinutesFoolConversationDisappearPerceiveTroublesomeTiresome Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.” IfsThinkingEarthTogetherCan DoNumbersRaceConsciousnessMinutesMountainOppositesHorseTwentiesDisappearSettlingQuartersContinentsInitialsLarge NumbersNuanceJockeys Author:John McPhee
“People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, "Oh right, yeah, yeah!" 'Cause you're just moving forward.” PeopleIfsPersonsMomentsMightHappensRememberMovingDiesCausesFiveMinutesYeahDisappearMoving ForwardFive MinutesTrue You Author:Danny Boyle
“If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.” IfsWholeBigsSeemsFilmRealizingRoomsMillionsNovelCuttingMinutesDyingDisappearEpicEditingClimax Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.” MenWantYearsLastsHalfMinutesInvolvedBallsDisappearFascinatedWant MeSingle Again Author:Cher
“In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldHumansDoeMadeIdeasRealSoulSeemsUniverseReligiousPrinciplesModernMinutesCreationTransformationFundamentalsAssumingSurpriseDisappearInstanceMake SenseImmortalityMasterpieceOld FashionedInsignificantExtinctionModern WorldParticlesHuman SoulSkepticFundamental PrinciplesWithout A Trace Author:Wernher von Braun
“You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” IfsShouldHoursMeditationPlansMinutesTaughtMouthsErrorsBusyDisappearAccomplishmentToo BusyTetris Author:Mike Tyson