“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."” ThinkingWayGivingLooksBookMatterHardDoneWholeHoursWalksRoomsBehindsWeekKeysPersonalityPagesWhole LifeGrayTraitsSister Author:Eleanor Brown
“I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!” WayBelieveEndsFunnyFoundI BelieveTermHoursFlowerConversationImportanceIntimateThoughtfulClientsUncertainFunny ThingsUrgencyNicheBloggingIntimate Conversation Author:Tom Peters
“My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.” WayLittlesMightWould BeRealizingHoursMomProudLateWake UpMy MomDinnerBreakfastWay To LiveInappropriateSnacksProud Of Me Author:Aaron Levie
“You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.” WayWholeHoursQualityBiggerOne Way Author:Lili Taylor
“That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.” WayHoursRecordsStrangeMoodRememberedStrange Things Author:Adam Yauch
“If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.” IfsWayGivingPersonsEndsLife IsSidesHoursDarkLevelsAngryExhaustedLowestDark SideBreaking Things Author:Jeremy Piven
“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.” PeopleWayHoursPracticeMeditationBuddhismListeningTechniqueSunsetFormalListening To MusicAthleticsParticipatingMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.” WayMindDoeDifferentSeemsHoursBrainFunctionBe GoodUnexpectedFrequencyDaylightEpiphanyNighttimeTime Of Day Author:Erin Morgenstern
“I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.” WayNeedsLongPlayHoursTelevisionShotsSeriesTheatre Author:Gavin MacLeod
“It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.” IfsWayWritingJobsHoursSucceedApproachModelsDown AndSticksEach DayAirplaneHobbiesSchedulesBabysitter Author:Rosellen Brown
“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.” KnowsWayEyeKidsFallEasyGrowthHoursOur LivesMinutesWasteDisappearGrantedClockColourMelodyPaleFifthSymphonyAvenuesRise And FallEvergreensFifth AvenueClock TickingNew GrowthLimestone Book:A Short Guide to a Happy Life Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.” WayHeartEndsFactsWisdomTodayMovingLife IsFoundHoursInspiringInterestingTroubleJourneyMinutesLateTrialsToo LateEnlighteningLife Is GoodEnd Of The Road Author:Robert Updegraff
“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.” IfsWayProblemLightEyeScienceHeavenStarsHoursPowerfulDarknessFailingComplexesIntellectFocusedNakedPerceiveConcentrationMost PowerfulRaysExposedFar AwayPlatesLensesTelescopesDarkness To LightRays Of LightComplex ProblemsNaked Eyes Book:Advice for a Young Investigator Source: Advice for a Young Investigator