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“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.”

Years Looks Ends Moments Waiting Differences Five Minutes Degrees Stealing Look Up Present Moment Cigarette Five Minutes Decency Smartphones

Author:Charlie Brooker

“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Ifs Way Years Humans May Earth Lasts Universe Sun Minutes Locals Seconds Cosmic September June July August December January Calendars Last Minute Milky Way Local History January 1st

Author:Carl Sagan

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.”

Ifs Years Done Play Feelings Used Felt Hours Behinds Creative Minutes Fit Tasks Crowds Granted Pushing Leisure Crushed

Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.”

Years Three Minutes Three Years Berkeley

Author:Caroline Lawrence

“There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.”

People Ifs Way Giving Should Years Believe Mean Whole Able Together Young Evil Grows Stuff Process Born Minutes Band Musician Fairs Guitar Starting Whole Life Horrible Unfair Not Fair Traction

Author:Louis C. K.

“Herman Cain compared his run for president to Moses leading his people out of Egypt. Cain said it took Moses 40 years to lead his people out of Egypt, but he could do it in 30 minutes or less.”

People Years Said Running President Minutes Egypt Moses Cain

Author:Conan O'Brien

“On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler - sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time.”

Years Persons Sometimes Artist Order Minutes Changed Planets Beats Tradition March Dreamer Disturbed Orderly

Author:Mary E. Pearson

“I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.”

Thinking Years Mean Has Beens Whole Economy Gone Five Minutes Institutions Credit Indispensable Oxygen Five Minutes Competence Halt

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.”

Knows World Years Doe Two Facts Seems Earth Moving Time Turns Reading Walks Our Lives Minutes Reader Ten Crosses Twenties Passing Passings Novelists Thirty Thirty Years

Author:Marcel Proust

“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.”

“Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.”

Way Writing Years Facts Seems Known Minutes Honest Jokes Assuming Journalism Ethical Articles Frivolous Fugitive Solemnity

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?”

Years Doe Courses Minutes Lifetime Punishment Humane Imprisonment Capital Punishment Executioners

Author:Anton Chekhov

“It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!”

Years Hours Minutes Accounts Rate Eight Budgets National Debt

Author:Richard Darman

“I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.”

Giving Trying Years Whole Moments Plans Minutes Rocks Ten Hundred Tasks Busy Fancy Idleness Comes And Goes Trifles Whim

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.”

People Years Age Minutes Seven Passing Passings Passages Day To Day Seven Years

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.”

Way Life Years Wells Two Sometimes Done Beautiful My Own Loss Steps Minutes Son My Family Saved Forty Two Years Target My Son Beautiful Things My Own Life Every Step Here I Am

Author:John Travolta

“My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it.”

Knows Trying Years Night Five Minutes Twenties Response Damn Five Years Every Night Embarrassed Make You Happy Twenty Five

Author:Ric Flair

“When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.”

Years Wanted Four Minutes My Family Four Years Animator Blown Away Fantasia

Author:David Bolinsky

“I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.”

Knows Years Three Minutes Couple Married Annoying Three Years Annoyed

Author:Patricia Heaton

“I met my wife when we were 15 years old. I knew within 15 minutes of meeting her, that's who I wanted to marry.”

Years Wanted Wife Minutes Mets Meetings My Wife

Author:Justin Allgaier

“I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs in twenty minutes, and walked out feeling more elated than I had ever felt in my entire life. The glory of that triumph contented me for two full years.”

Ifs Years Said Two Feelings Next Felt Break Laughing Minutes Musician Glory Twenties Triumph If I Could

Author:Emo Philips

“I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twentythree and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.”

Years House Chance Quality Minutes Needed My Friends Cooking Get Away Family And Friends Good Quality Quality Time

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.”

Needs Years Long Real Courses Easy Simple Morning Meditation Minutes Twenties Instruments Evening Holiday Beard Transcendental Transcendental Meditation Sari

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.”

Years Done Remember Film Three Hours Minutes Easier Theater Dialogue Novelty

Author:Woody Allen

“The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.”

People Trying Years Firsts Persons Minutes Figures Gains First Time Spread Witness Momentum

Author:Darren Criss

“As soon as you meet him [james Corden], within five minutes you'll want to sleep with him. He presented me with my award for Comedy Actress of the Year at the Glamour Awards and he said such lovely things. He's so charming and he listens to you and he's funny and sensitive and adorable. I can totally see why all the women fall for him.”

Want Years Said I Can Fall Sleep Five Comedy Minutes Actresses Lovely Sensitive Awards Charming Five Minutes Glamour Adorable Lovely Things Want To Sleep

Author:Joanna Page

“The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.”

Way Years Humans Long Church Human Beings Four Minutes Bases Distance Block Abortion Auschwitz Barbaric Dachau Buchenwald

Author:John Piper

“The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.”

Writing Years Mind Long Stills Character Song Millions Four Minutes Years Ago Instruments I Realized Followers Outlets Tweet 140 Character

Author:John Mayer

“Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."”

Life Inspirational Years Lasts Next Millions Five Minutes Inspirational Life Five Minutes Singularity

Author:Kevin Kelly

“It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.”

People Years Reason Together Difficult Five Minutes Years Ago New Year Five Minutes Years Together

Author:Ray Liotta

“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?”

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.”

Ifs Knows Years Kind Persons Has Beens Two Happens Stuff Religious Streets Minutes Car Crosses Religious Person Stuff Happens Close Calls

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.”

“I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.”

Thinking Want Should Years Children Courses Poor Minutes Television Drug Red Saving Noses Manifestation Contributing Life Saving Being Pretty Poor Children

Author:Simon Hoggart

“I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.”

Men Years Hands Political Minutes Six Criminals Opposition Accused

Author:Irakli Okruashvili

“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.”

Years Two Seems Kids Turns Reading Parent Sound Millions Gone Wonderful Minutes Love You Perspective Promise Quiet Pages Sacred Instinct Miles Evening Folds I Promise Miles Away

Author:George Saunders

“Think about how rare it is that you exist at all. Also think about time this way: If something exists, even for a second, then forever in the future that thing “existed”, and forever in the past that thing “was going to exist”. So to even be conscious for a millisecond is a kind of immortality, but you have more than a millisecond. You have minutes. Hours. Months. A year? Years! This is a gift.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Kind Past Hours Forever Minutes Months Conscious Immortality

Author:Alex Hirsch

“Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!”

Years May Two Moments Waiting Existence Minutes Ready Silent Two Years Single Mom Volcanoes Eruption

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.”

Ifs Years Minutes Income

Author:Brian Tracy

“My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.”

Men Want Years Lasts Half Minutes Involved Balls Disappear Fascinated Want Me Single Again

Author:Cher

“Not playing every day, I kind of healed up a little bit from the little injuries that I had the year before. Then, when I got home this winter and my body wasn't beat up, I said, 'Wait a minute, this may work out.'”

Years Kind May Littles Said Home Body Bits Waiting Minutes Little Bit Beats Winter Work Out Injury Healed

Author:Jim Thome

“Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.”

Years Minutes Praying Ten Murmuring

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

Knows Want Years Lasts Pleasure Know How Plans Failing Minutes Dog Fool Twenties Supreme Planning Cunning Last Minute

Author:Wallace Stegner

“The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act?”

Ifs Years Care House Names Waiting White Minutes Cost Members Bills Congress Extras Expensive White House Staff Obamacare Affordable Coverage Approved Exemption Affordable Care Act Staff Members

Author:Jay Leno

“In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.”

Thinking Years Jesus Minutes

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I recall a friend telling me that for all the years his mother worked, every clock in her home was set 30 minutes ahead. She was never late. And she was beloved by all. Punctuality matters. Shows respect for others. And excellence within yourself. Be great today. Please.”

Years Matter Shows Home Today Mother Minutes Please Late Respect Excellence Clock Beloved Recalls Respecting Others Punctuality Show Respect

Author:Robin Sharma

“Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.”

People World Years Humans Said Values Process Differences Brain Five Minutes Investing Five Years Five Minutes Human Brain Buffett Wiring Warren Buffet

Author:Mohnish Pabrai

“I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!”

Thinking Years Long Five Minutes Fashion Ten Clothes Long Time Daughter Closets Five Minutes Vintage Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Tom Ford

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