“The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.” MenWayYearsMadeEndsHoursStudyOne ThingHe ManHabitOne Hour Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“During a recent interview, President Obama revealed that his favorite movie this year was 'Boyhood.' It makes sense. If there's one thing Obama can identify with, it's aging several years over the course of a couple of hours.” IfsYearsCoursesPresidentHoursOne ThingCoupleAgingMake SenseInterviewsPresident ObamaBoyhood Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.” PeopleKnowsWayWantShouldTwoBookHandsThreeHoursOne ThingStageHavensSurpriseFingersIntenseCorporateDigitalMore TimePaceSlow DownSurvivingUtopianContemplativeUnattainableAppsHyperFragmentedContemplative LifeFingers Crossed Author:Junot Diaz
“Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.” TwoTodayUsedHoursPlayerOne ThingTeamWalkingBaseballTrainInvestmentFantasticPlanesMultipleFifteenSalaryBaseball PlayerPlane Rides Author:Duke Snider
“Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.” SaidLastsTurnsHoursSilenceLaughingComedyOne ThingNervesGreat TimesSour Author:Steve Harvey
“It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.” PeopleHoursFocusOne ThingMusic IsJust Do It Author:Fetty Wap
“It's the one thing that's mine. My runs everyday aremy thing. It's my therapy, my hour to myself. Nobody can really take it away from me... It's such a huge part of me. I love to say that I'm a runner.” RunningHoursOne ThingMinesHugeEverydayTherapyRunners Author:Summer Sanders
“One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.” ThreeGamesHoursWatchesFourOne ThingStupidFootballAverageBoringBoredomHorrificFootball GameColossalAmerican Movie Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.” FeelsWritingI CanIdeasHoursCreativeOne ThingWeekSittingStudiosWriting Music Author:Guy Pearce
“Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.” IfsWorldNeedsMayEndsMatterHardLightCareChristianFoundCausesHoursCasesOne ThingHard WorkExerciseSakeWorthyTake CareGods WillKingdomsBurningCandleThings In LifeFoolishnessKingdom Of GodProfitableRustBurn OutVisitationLight Of The World Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.” WorldShouldMindMeanMadeSoulWholeLightPastFallCausesVoiceHoursSimpleTeacherOne ThingDivineAll ThingsRelationSacredCommunicateTemplesCentrePassing AwayOld ThingsDivine Wisdom Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.” IfsWritingTwoMatterHoursMorningFourOne ThingFoolBedNo Matter What Author:Kiese Laymon