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“I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.”

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Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

“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.”

Way Believe Time Hours Loss Pay Attention Quality Minutes Myth Intense Eras Pay Attention Mothering One Minute Quality Time

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.”

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Author:Twyla Tharp

“If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.”

Ifs Looks Enough Nations Hours Imagination Four Minutes Needed Terror France Look Up Poetic Frightened One Hour

Author:Madame de Stael

“There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.”

Earth Night Hours Minutes Jew Outsiders

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.”

Might Sex Can Do Hours Minutes Seven Rounds Skiing Good Sex

Author:Spalding Gray

“"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."”

People Firsts Said Lasts Song Hours Minutes Paid Jazz Driving Rolls Royce Cannonballs

Author:Robert Glasper

“For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.”

Thinking Two Past Remember Hours Differences Brain Minutes Details Meaningful Bullets Visualization Most Meaningful Positive Experiences

Author:Shawn Achor

“In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train - I do about three hours in the gym...”

Home Running Three Hours Sleep Morning Minutes Wake Up Train Gym Back Home

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong. The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray. So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream You've an army at hand; your command is supreme; And question yourself, as it goes on review-- Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?”

Dream Hands Remember Moving Spirit Fighting Strong Hours Minutes Goes On Army Brave Supreme Command Clock March Reviews Seconds Officers Captains Tempted Remember When Tick Fray

Author:Philander Chase Johnson

“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!”

“I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.”

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Book:The Little Colonel's House Party

Source: The Little Colonel's House Party

“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.”

Ifs Trying Hours Doubt Four Minutes Internet Connections Cells Relative Fifteen Stretching Input Ultras Supervisors Cubicles Internet Connection

Author:Rob Payne

“And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.”

Years Heart Time Hours Minutes Seasons Blessed Intuition Invisible Rhythm Clock Immense Timing

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.”

People Important Lasts Life Is Enjoy Hours Talking Minutes Eight Toxic Mum Not Talking Short Life Parasites How Short Life Is Time For Yourself

Author:Ludivine Sagnier

“The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.”

People Should Stories Christian Spirit Turns Hours Prayer Situation Five Minutes Holy Dawn Holy Spirit Five Minutes Revival Renaissance Reformation Gloom Darkest Hour

Author:Os Guinness

“An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.”

Hours Prayer Minutes Circumstances Anxiety Stress

Author:Elbridge Bryant

“Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.”

Hands Time Hours Minutes Events Mark Great Events Small Events

Author:Andrew Michael Ramsay

“I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place where I will never see you, never be haunted by the possibility of seeing you with him. I need to be somewhere where sheer necessity forces you from my thoughts minute by minute, hour by hour, I cannot do that here.”

Way Needs I Can Asks Force Hours Seeing Minutes Possibility Judging Weakness Endure Sheer My Thoughts Judge Me

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.”

Hours Minutes Theatre

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.”

Ifs Feels Shows Night Hours Half Minutes Materials

Author:Buddy Hackett

“The wrestling, even though I would only wrestle for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes at a time, and it would look like that was the only time I was in it, was really a 24-hour job. Keeping yourself alive, reinventing yourself, staying physically in shape, the traveling, all the other commitments with being a wrestler, it was a crossover situation where it became sports entertainment and you actually became a media star, so it was very demanding.”

“In the ring, it's fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I'd rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.”

Kids Guy Fun Wish Stuff Hours Minutes Love You Rings Bad Guys Good Guy Make A Wish

Author:Hulk Hogan

“Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.”

Ifs Men Long Might Next Sound Hours Issues Minutes Decided Bigger Fundamentals Stakes Procrastination

Author:John J. Raskob

“My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.”

Ifs Happens Hours Half Minutes Drawing Half Hours

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.”

Ifs Years Done Play Feelings Used Felt Hours Behinds Creative Minutes Fit Tasks Crowds Granted Pushing Leisure Crushed

Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

World Use Certain Hours Differences Common Four Minutes This World Twenties Seconds Sixty Sixty Minutes

Author:Lou Holtz

“Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.”

Feels Made Two Running Hours Half Minutes Cost Benefits Golf Nine Holes Feel Better Better Off Hard Truths

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.”

Ifs Men Mean Children Reality Hours Minutes Approach Determined Technique Terrorist Innocent Variety Men Women Terrorist Attacks Innocent Man

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.”

Matter Kids Hours Week Minutes Couple Lessons Swim Repetition

Author:Summer Sanders

“Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes”

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Author:Robert Fulghum

“The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.”

Hours Prayer Minutes Tests Meetings Our Time Seconds Sixty Devotional Sixty Minutes

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”

“One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.”

“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.”

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Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!”

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Author:Richard Darman

“I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.”

Hours Minutes Thirty Engineering Leaving Me Eighteen

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.”

Two Hours Minutes Dull Notorious

Author:Francine Mathews

“All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.”

“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.”

Ifs Want Writing Trying Two Hours Minutes Figures Amount Picks Twenties Desks Spares

Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.”

“I cannot control what you bring into the theater when you see the film. I can't control what my parents bring in. I can't control what some random person on Twitter brings in to the theater. All I can control is the hour and 50 minutes that the movie lasts, and try to give it absolutely everything I can.”

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Author:James Ponsoldt

“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a half. That's totally unnecessary. If it's cardiovascular, you don't need more than 15 to 17 or 18 minutes if it's vigorous.”

People Ifs Needs Reason Hours Half Failing Minutes Unnecessary Vigorous Treadmills Cardiovascular

Author:Jack LaLanne

“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“Some guy came up to me with his kids, ages probably 10 and 12, and said that the reason he likes me is because he sat through an hour and twenty-minute show, and I didn't cuss one time. So it just really depends.”

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Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.”

People Shows Hours Half Talking Audience Minutes Missing

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

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