“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.” PeopleIfsWritingMotivationalWatchesAlivePlayerFieldsThousandPaidTwentiesChosenInstructionTrappedSpectatorsEightyEdits Author:Seth Godin
“The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.” ShouldChildrenEyeLawYoungHoursRaceWatchesFourConditionsTelevisionBasesTwentiesIncessantMutants Author:Federico Fellini
“Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.” WayYearsStillsSelfFacesFallSleepConsciousnessWatchesFiveWifeTwentiesDeeperMy WifeFive YearsUnconsciousFascinatedTwenty FiveSleepers Author:David Bottoms
“When I was very young, I started to make friends with much, much older people. So when I was twenty, my friends were fifty, and I never really went through forty because I would watch them die and I would feel younger. So you make friends with older people and you will always feel young no matter what.” PeopleFeelsMatterYoungDiesWatchesMy FriendsTwentiesNo Matter WhatFiftyFortyOlder People Author:Judd Apatow
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner of the country, I took the movie to twenty film festivals or something to that extent. I've lost track. Probably done Q&As 40-50 times at this point. It's always hard to watch something I've made, but I've got a little more objectivity and kind of see the film as not just an extension of myself.” KindLittlesMadeCountryHardDoneAmericaFilmLostWatchesSpringTwentiesMajorityTrackCornersExtensionsFestivalsObjectivityFilm Festivals Author:James Ponsoldt
“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.” WholeHoursHalfWatchesFourMinutesEffectsTwentiesSpreadAidsWheelsLabourExertionInsensibleWinding Up Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures
“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.” KindLittlesPersonsTwoSoulStatesGrowthNaturalWatchesTaughtMonthsDaughterTwentiesRateDevelopingMy DaughterExpansionInclinationTwo MonthsTwenty Two Author:Daniel Gillies
“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.” WantGivingImportantPlayGamesHoursSleepBrainWatchesStudyFourTwentiesVideoRidingBikeWhat's ImportantPlaying Video Games Author:Ned Vizzini
“I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.” KnowsWantHeartHas BeensHardEnoughPlayGamesHeavenWaitingWatchesClearMinutesBrokenThousandTwentiesFlyingThis LifeExtrasScarShatteredPlay HardCheckmateCheckersEnough Already Author:Andrea Gibson
“To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.” MenTwoWatchesPaperBallsPaidTwentiesWoodsSoccerKicksInkViolinSoccer PlayerTwenty TwoSoccer FootballMotivational SoccerSoccer Is My LifeSoccer Ball Author:J. B. Priestley
“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.” IfsNeedsWellsMatterRealityDesireHouseHoursPoorBrainEducationWatchesStudyFourMiddleTvsBalanceTwentiesPressureNo Matter WhatBlindRadioNewspapersMagazinesCrapObscureGroundedDeafConsensusSincerelyExtremistSupermarketsWell RoundedNuttyMiddle Of The RoadDeaf And Blind Author:Ivan Stang
“You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.” NeedsHeartTodayPerfectWatchesMinutesConditionsTwentiesEndlessNew BeginningsStarting OverNew Year New BeginningNew StartInspirational New BeginningNew Day New BeginningNew Life New BeginningBeginning Of LifeStarting A New BeginningNew Beginning LifeNew Beginnings In LifeNew Year Fresh StartNew Chapter In LifePerfect ConditionsEndless Time Author:Barbara Sher