“If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.” IfsFallMemoriesLaughingMinutesMetsMeetingsFormerRestaurantsKateMinneapolis Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Justice [Sonia]Sotomayor said, "Let's talk - you want to talk about the tax power."And I got like a 10-minute run on the tax power. And, boy, was I glad I did because I was able to get across this idea that, yes, this is a narrower ground on which you can affirm it. And I think everybody agrees. I think even the dissenting justices ultimately in the case agreed that, if Congress had expressly called it a tax, it would be indisputably constitutional.” IfsThinkingWantSaidIdeasWould BeRunningAbleJusticeBoysCasesMinutesTaxesAgreeCongressGlad Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.” PeopleIfsDoeMadeReasonGuyNextActorsLinesBehindsHalfMinutesSceneCamerasMathCompromiseRuinsDumbMake SensePretending Author:Casey Affleck
“If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.” IfsKindGamesFiveMinutesSixChessVersionsOne MinuteChess GameBlitzCubicles Author:Paul Banks
“I prime my mind. I wake up every morning and say, "Look, if you don't have 10 minutes for yourself, you don't have a life." I take 10 minutes.” IfsMindLooksMorningMinutesWake UpPrimeEvery Morning Author:Tony Robbins
“When I left the secretary of state office, I had a 69% approval rating. Once I start running for office and all the incoming you know is battering away, people are going to say, "Hey, wait a minute - what's that mean, what's that mean?" I get all of that, but I don't think we do any service to our country or the voters if we descend into the kind of insult fest that he seems to relish.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindMeanCountryStatesSeemsRunningLeftWaitingMinutesOfficeOur CountryHeyInsultVotersApprovalSecretaryRatingRelishRunning For OfficeApproval RatingBattering Author:Hillary Clinton
“If I feel like I am about to explode, I take a minute to evaluate what it is that I have on my plate, make a to-do list, and start tackling what I need to do, one step at a time.” IfsNeedsFeelsStepsMinutesListsPlatesEvaluateOne Step At A TimeTackling Author:Chelsea Krost
“There is this expectation that as January 1st dawns, we're going to do it differently. Moreover, there's this kind of pressure, that even if I've been trying to be different for a while, January 1st, from here on in - I have to be different. There's a cultural expectation, there's a personal expectation. I think it's worth just taking pause for a minute and talking about that.” IfsThinkingTryingKindDifferentTalkingMinutesExpectationsPressureDawnPausesJanuaryJanuary 1st Author:Rod Stryker
“You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.” IfsGivingFirstsRunningLanguageInterestMinutesSpeechApproachCandidatesReachingPensSecondsReporters Author:Roger Ailes
“I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.” IfsMindWould BeMinutesHusbandConversation Author:Mila Kunis
“What I recommend is this: after you've talked to everybody, go take a nap! Take a nap. Your body really needs to sleep. It's like washing your face. If you can't afford a three-hour nap, do a one-hour nap. If you can't afford a one-hour nap, do half an hour. If you can't afford half an hour, do fifteen minutes.” IfsNeedsBodyFacesThreeHoursSleepHalfMinutesYour BodyYour FaceFifteenWashingNapsOne Hour Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I think the most important thing when you are in a competition and you have, let's say, ingredients you have to use make something you did already because none of the judges, you know, probably had it in our lifetime, so I think do something you feel confident with, not something completely new where you are not sure how many hours or how many minutes you have to cook it or if the seasoning is right or if the combinations of spices and herbs are right.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsImportantUseHoursMinutesJudgingImportant ThingsCompetitionLifetimeCombinationCooksNot SureIngredientsWhere You AreSpicesHerbsSeasoning Author:Wolfgang Puck
“If you consider risk versus benefit, I mean, what is the risk of meditating? You just spend twenty minutes meditating. It's one of the things you can say is pretty much zero risk and there is the potential for massive benefit. Even if it's just minimal benefit, who wouldn't want that?” IfsWantMeanRiskMinutesBenefitsTwentiesMassiveZeroVersusMeditating Author:Jennifer Ashton
“Do something physical every day, even if it's just five or ten minutes of fast walking a couple times a day. That tends to replace fear and anger with determination and courage. It can change your identity, your momentum.” IfsFiveMinutesIdentityCoupleWalkingTenDeterminationMomentumYour Mom Author:Tony Robbins
“Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do an hour of political comedy, it might be a little rough, sure. But I think if you're spending 10 minutes or less, and you're talking about - not necessarily [Donald Trump] but his supporters and the media coverage, there's all kinds of angles to explore. It doesn't just have to be simply, "This guy is crazy!" It's more about the idea of that kind of guy rising to the prominence he has, to actually become the Republican candidate.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesIdeasMightHappensPoliticalGuyGirlHoursTalkingComedyCrazyMinutesMediaTrumpRepublicanSpendingAll KindsCandidatesRisingRoughSupporterAngleThis GuyCoverageProminenceMedia Coverage Author:David Cross
“Do the small things. If you are running a 10-12 minute mile take a mile off your plan for the day and use the 6 minutes before and after to stretch. A lot of the times we all want to go go go but it's important to stretch the calves and the hamstrings and nutritionally you know?” IfsKnowsWantImportantUseRunningPlansMinutesMilesSmall ThingsCalvesBefore And AfterHamstrings Author:Meb Keflezighi
“I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.” IfsThinkingSelfReasonWholeMinutesStrangeConsciousSticksProfessionWhole LifeHanging OutSelf Conscious Author:William H. Macy
“After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.” IfsYearsStillsShowsLastsDecisionWonderDoubtMinutesFashionCreatingRight ThingCollectionsQuestioningLast MinuteFashion Show Author:Sonia Rykiel
“What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.” IfsKindFactsStoriesEasyVoiceCommonMistakeImpossibleMinutesReaderPicksIdeologyLegacyProseShort StoryDisplayRealismTediousPragmatismCommon DenominatorPedestriansLess Is MoreVernacularBlendersTranscription Author:Cynthia Ozick
“I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.” IfsLooksBoysFansMinutesStyleChecksMassiveAesthetic Author:Adam Richman
“Maybe if I have another baby [I will grow my hair], because your hair grows super fast. I'll just grow it out and go natural for a minute.” IfsGrowsNaturalMinutesHairBaby Author:Amber Rose
“We found if you took the dog out for 45 minutes a day and worked with it that the solitary stress hormone, cortisol, went down. But then it went right back up again because they didn't keep doing it.” IfsFoundMinutesDogStressSolitaryHormones Author:Temple Grandin
“I try to return my calls but I get inundated with emails and I can't answer them all. So often, I have to refer to them my webpage and the frequently asked questions or refer them to the books. But if they take the time to call me, I try to call back. You know, I am really busy, but just happened to have an hour in the hotel room and had some time before I have to meet some people about 20 minutes.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingI CanBookHoursAnswersRoomsHappenedMinutesReturnBusyHotelCall MeEmailHotel Rooms Author:Temple Grandin
“If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded to develop a system in which - as he put it - power would be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, the more responsible set of men and who recognize the need to protect the rights of property owners. That's why in the constitutional system, the most powerful part of the whole system is the senate.” IfsMenNeedsLooksWholeHandsWould BeNationsWealthPowerfulRightsMinutesProtectResponsiblePropertyOwnersMost PowerfulSenateConventionsMadisonFramersConstitutional Convention Author:Noam Chomsky
“If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsPersonsPoliticalNextInterestPiecesGroupsMinutesShotsOpponentsWhat IfNegotiationInterest GroupsPolitical Opponents Author:Jonathan Rauch
“A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence long... These are from Twitter. And if you look at the nature of those one sentence letters, most of the time it's something that came to somebody's mind - somebody walking down the street had a thought and sent it out. If they thought about it for two minutes they would not have sent it.” IfsMindLooksLongTwoStreetsMinutesWalkingLettersSentencesCommentOne SentenceQueries Author:Noam Chomsky
“If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensImportantDifferentSchoolLife IsChurchPathMinutesExampleYouthCollegeSeriesWorkersDon't BelieveCriticalMinistersGraduatesSeniorProsperousCampusCongregationMarginalizedGraduate School Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. He's said Saudi Arabia should get them, Japan should get them, Korea should get them. And when he was confronted with this and told, wait a minute, terrorists could get those, proliferation could lead to nuclear war, here's what Donald Trump said, and I quote, go ahead, folks, enjoy yourselves.” IfsWorldShouldBelieveSaidWarNationsWaitingEnjoyMinutesTrumpWeaponsFolksNuclearTerroristJapanNuclear WeaponsKoreaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisNuclear WarProliferation Author:Tim Kaine
“If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.” IfsMindAudienceMinutesTvsPopsStrikesChords Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly short. So I feel as if I need to get into that pretty quickly and make it as practical and accessible as possible.” IfsNeedsFeelsMinutesPracticalsSermons Author:Max Lucado