“The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.” PeopleWorldImportantRealReadingHoursPrayerWalksMeditationMinutesHabitSolitudeQuietReal WorldQuiet TimeInspirational PrayerInspirational Reading Author:Ken Blanchard
“Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.” ThinkingShouldImportantEndsMomentsCharacterStoriesMinutesSixLosingSevenEditing Author:Judd Apatow
“The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” ThinkingWayWantKindImportantLife IsCausesSidesMinutesMarkImportant ThingsEmbraceNotionPopsLife ChangingShakesVersusMoldMessed UpPoke Author:Steve Jobs
“Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.” GivingMindImportantEvilEnergyDecisionGreaterMinutesVictoryHonorCircumstancesDefeatOccasionsToneSubmitReapEvery Occasion Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.” ThinkingTryingPersonsSaidImportantBigsJobsDecisionMinutesDangerousDivorcedImportant JobsWorking Women Author:Meryl Streep
“Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.” ThinkingImportantUseLife IsMoneyMinutesWalkingWasteInstanceBusTaxiLife Is So Short Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.” ThinkingMenLittlesStillsImportantReasonTodayDiesHouseShareMinutesStyleLatePrejudiceImportant ThingsBunchFamiliarRetiringPolishLife Style Author:Margaret Mead
“Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.” PeopleKnowsTwoImportantOpportunityPayAttentionHalfSuccessfulMinutesPay AttentionSuccessful PeopleExceedAttention Span Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.” ImportantLastsHistoryFiveMinutesImportant ThingsRealisingFive Minutes Book:The decline and fall of science Source: The decline and fall of science
“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.” PeopleImportantLastsLife IsEnjoyHoursTalkingMinutesEightToxicMumNot TalkingShort LifeParasitesHow Short Life IsTime For Yourself Author:Ludivine Sagnier
“The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.” PeopleTryingImportantIdeasUniverseAttentionImagineMinutesConceptsBasesCenter Of The Universe Author:John Green
“Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.” IfsWayLittlesStillsImportantHelpingRealizingSilenceMorningNiceMeditationMinutesTwentiesLittle ThingsWhat's Important Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.” LooksMayImportantRunningMinutesStupidImportant ThingsDistanceSecondsAfterlifeUnforgivingKipling Author:Stephen Fry
“I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.” LooksImportantMatterKidsAsksMinutesAbuseNo Matter WhatPrivilege Author:Michael J. Fox
“A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?” MayImportantMomentsFiveMinutesEventsFive MinutesImportant Moments Author:Dean Alford
“When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.” IfsThinkingStillsImportantEndsHappensFightingMinutesHappeningsVehicleWorth It Author:Salma Hayek
“It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.” ImportantMinutesMaterialsAmountScreens Author:Christopher Walken
“A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.” WantImportantKidsMotherWifeMinutesOne DayMarriedWho You AreFinding YourselfBeing MarriedWomen WantWives And Mothers Author:Sevyn Streeter
“I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.” ThinkingMindImportantSometimesHelpingLastsActorsMinutesSceneHappeningsPerformancesCamerasImportant ThingsThings HappenSupposed To BeGood ActorsLast Minute Author:Audrey Tautou
“I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.” TryingFirstsImportantDoneLastsValuesWaitingTeamMinutesTasksMy TimeSmarterUrgentHiringGreat TeamLast Minute Author:Jeet Banerjee
“I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case.” WorldTryingPersonsImportantNextCasesFiveMinutesTreatsCourtFive Minutes Author:Steven Pacey
“A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.” WantImportantJobsLastsCoursesGamesChanceTeamMinutesPositionSevenCoachingNbaClosing Author:Doug Collins
“Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.” KnowsImportantPlayStoriesSeemsLife IsMinutesFiguresLatePlotFog Author:John Eldredge
“We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantLostMinutesWalkingSittingDown AndThirtyWho We AreWhat's ImportantCenteredness Author:Alan Lightman
“We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.” WellsImportantAcceptingFocusMinutesWhat's Important Author:Eric Barker
“Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week.” ImportantSometimesBodyMovingGivenSimpleWeekMinutesLegsYour BodyIntensityWorkout Author:Jozy Altidore
“Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.” ImportantCareersFiveMinutesInjuryStayingStretchingBefore And AfterProlonging Author:Jozy Altidore
“My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.” IfsImportantEndsClassComedyTeacherMinutesFrontsFiguresFoolSmartGradesThe End Of The DayRoutineReally SmartAnd At The End Of The DaySeventh Grade Author:Jim Carrey
“Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.” ShouldMadeImportantEndsSometimesLawHoursPathMinutesFlowFollowingMilesHillsNarrativeLoyalYardsBrooksCircuitsWoodlandHorseshoes Author:Mark Twain
“The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.” ImportantEndsActorsBitsMinutesShooting Author:Mark Strong
“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsImportantIdeasHomeRememberLanguageFiveFourLandMinutesFoolLettersShould HaveSentencesDamnI Want YouEnglish LanguageParagraphFood LoveImportant Words Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.” IfsWantImportantPlayGrowsMeditationMinutesDisciplineSkillsTrainingPerseverancePianoHere And ThereSystematicPlaying Piano Author:Jack Kornfield
“The sexual act - thinking about the sexual act, the telling about the sexual act, after the sexual act, is so much more important than the actual sexual act - just in time. It's like of the whole sexual act, you probably spend 95% of the time thinking about it, talking about it afterwards. The actually sexual act, especially when you're 17, is minutes.” ThinkingImportantWholeTalkingMinutes Author:Will Gluck
“The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.” ThinkingChildrenImportantLife IsBornForeverMinutesChangedBalanceOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Nia Long
“Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.” ThinkingImportantHeardMinutesOne Minute Author:Sally Field
“I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been avoided. Knowing how to get out of our homes is important, especially in less than 2 minutes.” ImportantCountryHomeKnowingFireMinutesDuesShockedAvoided Author:Frankie J. Grande
“From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.” WantTryingImportantAsksEasyCompanyClearFiveFocusMinutesPerspectiveKeysBusyProductivityObjectivesDesksEmailFive MinutesDeckClearingPrioritization Author:Ivanka Trump
“I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.” KnowsLongImportantFunMinutesSubjectsLong TimeSelectLightingAssistantsSoundtracks Author:Carol Friedman
“We must constantly remain in a state of prayer; it is not something we do for just a few minutes now and again, or on certain occasions when we are especially in need. It is extremely important that God can speak to us all the time. This makes it much easier to seek the kingdom of heaven at all times.” NeedsImportantStatesCertainSpeakHeavenPrayerMinutesEasierKingdomsAll TimeOccasionsDaily LifeKingdom Of Heaven Author:Esther Smith
“Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.” MadeImportantJobsDecisionWalksRoomsActingMinutesColorHairSkinsBe GoodSkin Color Author:Rashida Jones
“I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.” BelieveImportantInterestMinutesCircumstancesDifficultyImportant ThingsMinoritiesSputnik Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“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
“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
“You have to be really vigilant and appreciative of what you have and not get too excited about anything. But it's important to celebrate what you have and feel proud for a minute.” FeelsImportantMinutesProudExcitedCelebrateVigilantAppreciative Author:Sophia Amoruso
“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
“The first listen is very important to me. Half of my favorite records just hit you in the face immediately with something memorable and within three-and-a-half minutes you know you've heard something really special. I want to make records like that, but it's a big challenge.” KnowsWantFirstsImportantBigsFacesThreeChallengesHalfRecordsHeardMinutesSpecialMy FavoriteMemorableBig Challenges Author:Derek E. Miller