“This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.” AgeThreeWonderFiveMinutesMissingPicksPhonesBrokeCentsSixtyHello Book:The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz Source: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
“I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.” FeelsHas BeensAbleFeltAbilityEconomyMinutesPicksBlessed Author:Jim Cramer
“Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.” IfsStudyMinutesSubjectsGeniusPicksJust OneEach Day Author:Albert Einstein
“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.” IfsWantWritingTryingTwoHoursMinutesFiguresAmountPicksTwentiesDesksSpares Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.” IfsKnowsLittlesMadeTwoProblemBigsMistakeWorryAudienceMinutesFrontsPicksSafetyNervesSitcomBig ProblemsSafety Net Author:John Cleese
“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)” ThinkingMenWellsKindSaidEnoughBodyFilmTurnsStuffDarkRolesTakenTroubleMinutesPositionHairPicksAreasCamerasAssumingPhotographInvisibleNakedDataFancyDigitalSpidersHollowStarksSpraySpider ManTechniciansDigital CamerasHollow Man Author:Kevin Bacon
“We broke up, and my first reaction was 'Fine - I've been through this too many times. I can't change your mind. I can't live your life for you. You're gone in your direction. I'm going to pick up; I'm going to go in my direction. I'm not going to live in the past. I'm not going to embrace the pain. You go, I'll go, and that will be it.' And I felt that way for an hour and 10 minutes.” WayMindFirstsI CanPainPastFeltHoursGoneMinutesFinePicksEmbraceReactionsBrokeLive Your LifeCan't ChangeChanging Your MindBroke Up Author:Dana Gould
“I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldI CanRecordsMinutesMusic IsPicksSacredAccessBlockBizarreCatchingFlipNeedlesVinylCatching On Author:John Vanderslice
“There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.” WaitingFiveMinutesFashionPicksPhonesFive MinutesIpads Author:Donna Karan
“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