“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
“So when I can, I try my best to meditate a little bit every day, and that helps a lot. I think that just taking a minute, or however long you can, and really acknowledging everything that you have. Acknowledging what you have, and at the same time, acknowledging what other folks don't have. And you know, you don't have to feel guilty about it, but definitely to feel grateful is the first step in giving it back.” ThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsTryingFirstsLittlesLongI CanHelpingBitsStepsMinutesLittle BitGratefulFolksGuiltyFirst Steps Author:Thao Nguyen
“Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesIdeasMomentsHelpingBigsUsedThreeBitsPerfectAttentionFocusMeditationMinutesCarLittle BitSittingBreatheThese DaysInwardPerfectionist Author:Renee Marino
“As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I'd be really excited. Then I'll start to read it and I think, "Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn't a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself."” PeopleThinkingLittlesIdeasKidsBitsWaitingMinutesLittle BitPhilosopherExcitedHolesThinkerTicketsTheologianRabbitsPursuedGatewaysRabbit Holes Author:Will Oldham
“One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel Bach's variations on "Le Folie." You'll definitely hear - I mean, I think if we listen to, say, the last couple of minutes of that track, there's a wide range of colors that the harpsichord is capable of. And I think, you know, that gives lie to the assumption that it doesn't have that kind of variety. And I think it very much speaks for itself.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayGivingKindMeanLastsLyingSpeakMinutesColorSonCoupleCapableTrackWideVarietyRangeAssumptionVariation Author:Mahan Esfahani
“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 don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.” PeopleThinkingMeanReasonStoriesComedyMinutesDrama Author:Judd Apatow
“I always laugh because I used to think the week before anyone saw me on "Charlie's Angels," nobody cared what I ate, how I exercised, what clothes I wore. Nobody was interested and the minute I was on "Charlie's Angels" everything I said was interesting.” ThinkingSaidUsedInterestingLaughingSawsWeekMinutesClothesAngelCharlieNobody CaresCharlie's Angels Author:Cheryl Ladd
“Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.” ThinkingLongHappensHoursSleepWalksImagineMinutesFrontsTenNosesDaylightSmartphonesLong Walks Author:Daniel Kahneman
“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingYearsMindChildrenRealLastsFatherDecisionBehindsCompanyFiveMinutesGiving UpBuiltSickOur ChildrenDollarsBunchOur WorldFive MinutesGreat PowerMaking DecisionsSidelinesBusiness World Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.” ThinkingKindMatterMinutesWindowPlanningRefreshingOne Minute Author:Jodie Foster
“Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet, it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black. It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds - let alone 15 minutes - to decide what you think about it.” PeopleThinkingOpportunityBlackFansMinutesInternetSecondsReceptiveRebeccaChoosy Author:Alan Palomo
“We're trying, despite having done research and having obviously preconceived ideas, we try our best to be as open-hearted as possible, and try to create context. So that's always going to be the challenge, making a program like 'Gaycation', and we are always thinking about it, reflecting on it, and doing our best to show the whole picture as much as possible in a 45-minute span. Hopefully that comes across.” ThinkingTryingIdeasDoneWholeShowsChallengesMinutesResearchProgramDespiteHopefullyReflectingHeartedAlways ThinkingWhole PicturePreconceived Ideas Author:Ellen Page
“I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.” ThinkingEnoughMinutesRetiringHad Enough Author:Paul McCartney
“There are so many things out there now like these 30-minute workouts. I don't know if they work, but a lot of people have jobs and they don't have time to go to the gym. They can do those little 30-minute workouts they see on TV, or get one of those little portable gyms for their house. I think that's a good start.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLittlesJobsHouseCan DoMinutesTvsGymWorkout Author:Andre Reed
“My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".” ThinkingSaidNextWinningMinutesCoachesTournaments Author:Serena Williams
“The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.” ThinkingYearsSaidStoriesMightGivenHoursSimpleHalfWatchesMinutesRoseSeriesMagazinesDamnArticlesFifteenCompelledCousinGlovesGypsyHalf HoursPeelingDamn Good Author:Karen Abbott
“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.
“I think what happened is that everybody's impressions got formed in those first few minutes. And I felt like, by the latter part of it, I kind of clawed my way back into the discussion. But everybody's impressions were set at the beginning. And wholly apart from me and whether I was good or bad, you know, there were a lot of hostile questions.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsKindFeltHappenedMinutesImpressionMy WayDiscussionLatterHostile Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone else has complete dominance. It's sadistic, even though I find Richard to be a really lovely human being. That's what the whole film "Tickled" is about. It's not a film about tickling, but I think tickling offers a really good visual metaphor for the much bigger ideas that we were trying to get at about power and control - by people who have a lot of money - over people without money and who have no power in the relationship.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansIdeasWholeFilmHuman BeingsMinutesOffersBiggerMetaphorLovelyVisualsChairsTiedLots Of MoneyPowerlessDominanceSadisticPower And ControlTickling Author:David Farrier
“You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.” PeopleThinkingWorldWould BePsychologyMinutesFindingsFemaleSpendingFeaturesDocumentariesPhysiologyTicklingTicklish Author:David Farrier
“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
“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 only know who you think you are. You sort of feel like you could change at any minute.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsMinutesLike You Author:Rachelle Lefevre
“You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldHas BeensStoriesWaitingMinutesSolitudeShould HaveSentencesBeing YourselfDancerShould Have BeenTap Dancers 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
“I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it's Âbeautiful. I'm just not that person.” ThinkingPersonsBeautifulMinutesWake UpEyeliner Author:Mila Kunis
“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
“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
“I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.” ThinkingBitsMinutesRateEdgesHillsOver The Edge Author:Van Morrison
“I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-minute experience and realize that all of the content that comes on top of the 90-minute film experience, [that] there's a lot of that, especially with documentaries.” ThinkingWorldMeanFilmUnderstandingRealizingMinutesLetting GoOnlineNew WorldBeing RealDocumentariesTime To Let Go Author:Alex Stapleton
“There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content and people still want to see it. It's being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMindStillsFactsUsedStuffProcessPiecesMinutesInformationMaterialsFitSmartMaking MoneyExtrasLockedNew ThingsConventionalOpen MindDvdsReally SmartConventional Ways Author:Alex Stapleton
“I like somebody I can consider edgy, because, I also find that when people see me; the first thing they might think about me, musically, is that I rap or make beats, in the sense of trap or hip-hop or whatever, and when they hear what I actually create, they'll often be like, 'Wait a minute, I wasn't expecting this'.” PeopleThinkingFirstsI CanMightWaitingMinutesBeatsHip HopRapHipsHopsExpectingTrapsOften IsEdgy Author:Jlin
“We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I think she knew of me too. We were laughing within a few minutes, I mean really, furiously, laughing. So we were off to a good start.” ThinkingMeanFallNamesLaughingHeardMinutesMetsSummerKate Author:Alison McGhee
“It was a very interesting experience. You know, I don't think words could do it justice. Roseanne [Barr] is a comedian, a laugh a minute at every turn, and this time around she was actually going to be the vice presidential candidate of another Green Party candidate. So I guess she's still in the mix in some ways,sort of learning her politics as she goes, like a lot of us Americans who are getting thrown under the bus and for whom it is not a laughing matter. We are going to stand up and take this seriously and refuse to be intimidated out of the future that we deserve.” ThinkingKnowsWayStillsMatterTurnsJusticeInterestingPartyLaughingMinutesDeserveGreenVicesRefuseComedianPresidentialCandidatesThrownBusVery InterestingIntimidatedVice PresidentPresidential CandidateGreen PartyThrown Under The Bus Author:Jill Stein
“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
“I think [Donald] Trump is going to try to be fairly low key, but the problem is that I don`t think he is going to very well with [Hillary] Clinton attacking him fairly relentlessly for 90 minutes.” ThinkingTryingWellsProblemMinutesKeysTrumpLowsClintonAttackingLow Key Author:Josh Barro
“The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.” ThinkingTryingUseMinutesPerceptionDemocraticBoycott Author:Shimon Peres
“I think what a lot of people forget is that a lot of the music in the '60s and the '70s was made in the spirit of daring, spontaneity, and adventure, so the minute all that sinks into this sense of a classic form, it has lost its spirit.” PeopleThinkingMadeFormSpiritLostForgetMinutesAdventureClassicDaringSpontaneity Author:Justin Adams
“The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMomentsTalkingAudiencePiecesMinutesReaderListenersThis Is Me Author:Kate Tempest