“The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.” WayActingStreetsMinutesStudentsCreatingTownsHotFingersPhonesMilesNineHillsLandscapeFlatsLos AngelesApartmentMultitudesMidnightAvenuesEighteenPhone CallsGarageDiagonal Author:Steve Martin
“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?” ThinkingNeedsWritingYearsFirstsPlayHandsMightArtistOrderFiveGreaterWeekMinutesMonthsTrainingInstrumentsAssumingFingersLipsMultipleFive MinutesGuitaristPianistFingertipsCoordinationCalluses Book:The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
“Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.” FeelsHandsEyeAttentionMeditationMinutesBuddhismCoupleFingersSpotsTouchingChakra Meditation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?” ChildrenEnoughWholeBodyWould BeCommonHellFireMinutesBearsFingersFleshMythologyBurningLakesCandleTormentOne MinuteHell FireFire BurningBurning In Hell Book:Sermons on Several Occasions Source: Sermons on Several Occasions
“In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.” IfsWayGivingWritingMindMinutesGiving UpPaperConstantFingersTrackMy WayThings To DoPensYearningOf My MindKeyboardsHankering Author:Mary Garden
“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.” ShouldKindTwoMatterPlayWould BeAsksHoursBrainPracticeFourMinutesFingersEightActiveConcentrationMaximumPupils Author:Leopold Auer
“Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his stage for 20 minutes. After I was done, Maceo's bass player got down on one knee as if he were proposing, took a string off of his bass guitar and coiled it up around my ring finger. He hushed the crowd and said into the microphone, "Wendy, from this day forward you are married to music. You have a gift from God. You must devote your life to using this gift or else you will deprive the world of something so special." I got the chills.” IfsWorldSaidDonePlayerMinutesSpecialStageMarriedFingersGuitarCrowdsRingsTeenagerKneesBrownStringsThis DayConcertsChillBassGift From GodMicrophonesSaxophoneWendyBass PlayersBass Guitar Author:Wendy Starland
“I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.” KnowsWorldDifferentEyeYoungFatherLeftEmotionSituationMinutesGrewDrugGrew UpFingersGuitarDifferent WorldsAbusiveBad Situations Author:DJ Ashba
“The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.” PeopleWayGivingSaidOrderGivenPresidentLinesResponsibilityFourMinutesTrumpWeaponsResponsibleFingersBottomNuclearCodeNuclear WeaponsButtonsBottom LineUnprecedentedLaunching Author:Hillary Clinton