“Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.” WritingWellsUseWould BePurposeNamesLostMorningForeverImagineMinutesConditionsBalanceDrawsAdvantageAccountsCreditPortionsCentsEvery Morning Author:Ann Landers
“Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?” MeanHandsPoliticalDecisionShareMinutesOffersAidsSoilReachingPlotPortionsExaminationRichnessSympatheticSurveysPolitical PowerConvertingErin Author:Amanda McKittrick Ros
“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.” MenWorldHas BeensLeftAbilityModernMinutesPersonalityDevelopmentHigherMetsNormalAspectScientistPatientVanityObsessedEncountersEnterprisePortionsScholarAutonomyFragmentsExaggerationMorbidSufferersTechniciansPsychiatricHigher Learning Author:Richard M. Weaver
“There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.” MayWholeBodyUsedTurnsMinutesCreationClothesMinistersPortionsGratification Book:Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838 Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
“I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process” ThinkingProcessMinutesChaosPortionsMoleculesMajestic Book:Transition Source: Transition
“I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going for the quick thrill, rather than spending time concentrating on my voice. I figured I'd get on, make as many quick movement as possible, dance my ass off for five minutes, move into the insult portion of the evening, and then, at the end, create some kind of chaos until the 55 minutes were up.” KindEndsMovingVoiceRealizingFiveMinutesStupidMovementChaosSpendingAssEveningInsultPortionsThrillFive MinutesImplicationsConcentratingSpending Time Author:Iggy Pop