“I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?” IfsWantWellsGuyTurnsWaitingHellMinutesEuropeCamerasSellingAsiaTurn-onTubesSelling Something Author:John Slattery
“I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.” PeopleMenWantPersonsCareGamesProcessSituationKnownFiveMinutesFrontsDon't CareHorribleSuitsSupposed To BePilotsFive MinutesHandfulStressfulStressful SituationsWearing A Suit Author:Andy Dick
“The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.” PeopleWantShowsMinutesProduceClothesTemptedRunway Author:Michael Kors
“Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'” WantStoriesInterestingSeeingMinutesModelsCamerasCirclesVery InterestingBankersVisiting Author:Edwin Land
“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
“Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, when we didn't win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening.” IfsThinkingWantFilmWinningMinutesSeparationEveningEnjoyed Author:Philippe Falardeau
“Finally, you're right about one point, your entire way of thinking is predicted by what you're immersed in so you know you won't make a bad decision. You can make a bad decision but it's still in the good sphere normally if you work well. You're prepared to face a crew who wants to know everything and poses a hundred questions a minute, because you know you have good reflexes and can respond very quickly.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantWellsStillsFacesDecisionMinutesHundredPreparedSpheresCrewWay Of ThinkingReflexesBad Decision Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.” WantIdeasCharacterStoriesMinutesSingingTheatreScreensJustifyImpatient Author:Stephen Sondheim
“We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.” WantWritingTryingFirstsLooksStillsTwoDifferentMovingHoursFiveMinutesFiguresTelevisionLike YouSceneBuiltSeriesComplicatedEpisodesStreaming Author:Jill Soloway
“The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?” WantMadeFiveWifeMinutesHonorPleaseLiarsFive MinutesYour Honor Author:Christopher Titus
“You can microwave a Pop Tart. That just blew me away that you could do that. How long does it take to toast a Pop Tart? A minute and a half if you want it dark? People don't have that kind of time? Listen, if you need to zap-fry your Pop Tarts before you head out the door, you might want to loosen up your schedule.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsKindLongDoeMightDarkHalfDoorsMinutesPopsSchedulesToastsMicrowavesTarts Author:Brian Regan
“Generally, the imagery and the text go hand in hand. It's much easier when the text comes first, but sometimes I need visual stimulation in order to find the words. I get an idea of what I want when I begin to shoot, and the text is usually the last thing to be resolved. I tend to leave the text open, and I refine the words up to the last minute. As for the image, I can resolve that and get that done fairly quickly.” WantNeedsFirstsI CanIdeasSometimesDoneHandsLastsOrderMinutesEasierVisualsResolveImageryHand In HandStimulationLast Minute Author:Lorna Simpson
“How many of you heard the voice of God speak specifically, clearly, directly, and personally, to you? Can you just put a hand up? I'd like you to share it. Can you put a hand up for a minute? Just want you to look around; that's people saying, "God Almighty, the Maker of heaven, the one Who's sitting on the only throne that's not under threat - He spoke to me. He spoke to me." "God spoke to me." Don't let the voice of the darkness tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don't let him tell you, you don't matter. God spoke to you.” PeopleWantLooksMatterHandsSpeakHeavenVoiceDarknessHeardShareMinutesLike YouSittingThreatSpokesMakersAlmightyThronesVoice Of GodHands Up Author:Louie Giglio
“If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.” IfsWantGivingTwoSoundCreativityRecordsMinutesThirtyIf I CouldSecondsSnares Author:Nikki Sixx
“Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'” ThinkingMenWantPlayWeekMinutesRight NowSixTheaterSunday Author:Stephen Lang
“I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsGuyMinutesBoredPocketsShut UpLaurels Author:Paul McCartney
“A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.” PeopleIfsWantReasonMinutesMissingSingingImpactDetailsChinaCommunismCartoonThesisPhdsImpact On Society Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it's your show. Whereas at festivals it's very strict, like if you go like two minutes over they get ready to pull the plug kind-of-thing. They're both good and bad.” IfsWantKindTwoShowsFunBitsMinutesReadyLike YouStrictFestivalsGood And BadPlugsI Like You Author:Flume
“I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.” PeopleWantNeedsWholeFacesStuffProcessSoundHoursFiveMinutesFineGoes OnPainfulEightYour FaceTapeAwkwardCastingFive MinutesAdjustmentDraining Author:Mike Judge
“I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.” WantWould BeInterestingPlansMinutesMy TimePhasesMicrosoftPhases Of Life Author:Steve Ballmer
“Yes, it leads people to believe that they have more information than our cops, but then, at some point, before you know it, you're both caught up. Everybody, when they're watching the who-dun-it shows, is making guesses in the first five minutes anyway. We just kind of give them what they want.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingFirstsBelieveKindShowsFiveMinutesInformationCaughtCopCaught UpFive Minutes Author:Kristin Lehman
“When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and I swallow it back, but sometimes it's real. Whatever it is, it's hard. I don't do the first five or ten minutes of my character's appearance in a movie until the middle of the shooting schedule because I don't want him to be defined by my nervousness. So, we do the middle of the picture first.” WantFirstsRealSometimesHardCharacterFilmNightFiveMiddleMinutesTenMouthsAppearanceDefinedShootingSchedulesWant HimNervousness Author:Donald Sutherland
“A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more existential questions like, "What do I want in life? What's going to make me happy?"” WantCareBitsStruggleTakenMinutesAskingExistentialDay To DayMake Me Happy Author:Paul Rust
“People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.” PeopleWantFeelsAttentionToo MuchMinutesMusic IsAttention Span Author:Phil Elvrum
“If you're going somewhere East from here, generally what you want to do is you want to try to have your bed time earlier and earlier so what we'll do is I'll have someone adjust for a week or two by going to be 15 minutes earlier and getting up 15 minutes earlier every night. So that can be a really simple thing.” IfsWantTryingTwoNightSimpleWeekMinutesBedEastWhat You WantEvery NightSimple ThingsBed Time Author:Shelby Harris
“I row for about 40-45 minutes every morning and put in my iPod and it's a huge range. That's when I listen to either things that I just love and know very well and just want to pay attention, it's also where I listen to things that are new that I want to get to know.” KnowsWantWellsPayAttentionMorningMinutesHugePay AttentionRangeEvery MorningIpods Author:Tod Machover
“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've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty.” WantLooksStillsKidsSchoolThreeNaturalMorningMinutesReadyOfficeDroppingLimited Time Author:Christina Zilber
“I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.” PeopleMenWantMinutesEmbraceGood TimesLove LifeHaving A Good TimeI Love Life Author:John Leguizamo
“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.
“Charles Burchfield would look at what you were working on and not say anything for several minutes. Then he would very sensitively respond - "Well, have you thought about?" or "Might you consider?" I respected that so much because I thought he was so sensitive to my work, and didn't want to offend me, but in the right way to encourage me.” WayWantWellsLooksMightMinutesSensitiveSay AnythingRight Way Author:Paul Smith
“I take 10 minutes. I focus on what I'm most grateful for. Then I do a little prayer for three minutes, a blessing within myself through God, and then out to my family and friends and all those I serve. Then my last three minutes are the three things I want to achieve most. At the end of 10 minutes, you are wired. Everything in your life gets filtered through that.” WantLittlesEndsLastsThreePrayerFocusMinutesAchieveBlessingMy FamilyGratefulFamily And FriendsThree Things Author:Tony Robbins
“If you consider risk versus benefit, I mean, what is the risk of meditating? You just spend twenty minutes meditating. It's one of the things you can say is pretty much zero risk and there is the potential for massive benefit. Even if it's just minimal benefit, who wouldn't want that?” IfsWantMeanRiskMinutesBenefitsTwentiesMassiveZeroVersusMeditating Author:Jennifer Ashton
“My kids! They run so hot and cold. One minute, I am in complete control and feeling like Supermom, then the next minute, my two-year-old is having a tantrum in line at the supermarket and is inconsolable, and I feel so helpless and I want to crawl in a hole.” WantFeelsYearsTwoFeelingsRunningKidsNextLinesMinutesColdHotHolesTwo YearsHelplessSupermarketsOne MinuteTwo Year OldsTantrumsHot And Cold Author:Kristen Taekman
“I don't want to do 20 minutes on Donald Trump. I want to do 10 minutes and move on. I wouldn't even do that with a live show, because I don't want it to feel like "An Evening Of Political Comedy."” WantFeelsShowsMovingPoliticalComedyMinutesTrumpEvening Author:David Cross
“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
“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
“First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.” WantGivingFeelsFirstsLongFeelingsProblemLinesMinutesAcceptanceCoupleNewsExpectationsStressWitnessTriggersBypass Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come out of the audience and go, "Hey man, you should have cut 20 minutes. That wasn't so good." And I'll just obsess on that one guy. After all this love, I'll obsess on him and want to smash his face in and strangle him and kick him down the stairs and I'll be pouting about that one guy all night.” PeopleMenWantShouldI CanFacesNightGuyAudienceCuttingMinutesStandingShould HaveCrowdsHeyKicksCheerAll NightStairsNeuroticPouting Author:Wayne White
“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