“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.” PeopleHumansMayEndsWholeMomentsStoriesHappensPainLife IsPurposeCausesDifficultHuman BeingsSleepPleasureLevelsViewsExistenceMinutesMissingAspectEmptyFundamentalsAverageDeterminedMeaningfulSignificantThings HappenPlusHappy LifeDevotedMeasurementHuman ExistenceArcsPain And PleasureDifficult LifeSignificant Moments Book:Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
“You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family.” HappensKidsFightingHurtWifeMinutesTerribleHusbandThings HappenOur FamilyDragTerrible ThingsHusband And Wife Author:Sophia Bush
“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
“There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.” PeopleIfsWorldEnoughBigsRealityHappensBornCasesImagineMinutesEffectsBelieverThings HappenRestraintPuppetsPredestinationBig Changes Author:Neil Peart
“The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same amount of time, however, to tell people, 'It's good to see you again. I'm sorry we only have a minute to talk,' as it does to say, 'I don't have time to talk with you' period.” PeopleDoeHappensRunningMinutesCryAmountPeriodsShameGood ThingsSorryThings HappenI'm SorryYou Again Author:Barbara Mandrell
“What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.” ThinkingYearsLongHappensLastsHappenedMinutesChangedLong TimeShotsFinalsProductionsThings HappenPostsDestinationLast MinuteFinal DestinationPost Production Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative.” WorldFeelsPersonsIdeasDifferentHappensTogetherMinutesMusic IsEightHearingThings HappenNarrativeAmbientAmbient Music Author:Missy Mazzoli
“For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out of that. I was really fortunate. For a professional speaker, it is all about press, publicity and PR, so to get that much free publicity ... it made life a lot easier.” PeopleGivingTryingMadeHappensMinutesEasierFamePressesThings HappenFortunateSomething NewSpeakersPublicity Author:Judson Laipply