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“In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.”

Knows May Persons Problem Next Successful Psychology Week Events Broken Beats Accounts Infinite Legs Range Formulas Exceptional Next Week Predicting Broken Leg

Author:Atul Gawande

“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.”

World Should Matter Whole Used Jesus Church Practice Growing Air Tree Week Effects Bird Garden Should Have Seeds Kingdoms Meat Salt Smallest Nests Contagious Sprinkles Yeast Slabs

Author:Philip Yancey

“Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.”

People Forget Week Justification Forget It Justification By Faith

Author:Martin Luther

“Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer.”

Together Church Prayer Week Tradition Preaching Wednesday Days Of The Week

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.”

People Knows Has Beens Character Wanted Sports Party Saws Week Television Tvs Personality Bowls Know Me Talk To Me Super Bowl Columnists

Author:Woody Paige

“People go, 'Hey, did you do anything special for the Super Bowl?' Well no, I like to think I do the same amount of work every week getting ready for a game.”

People Thinking Wells Games Week Special Ready Amount Hey Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Phil Simms

“The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.”

People Way Moments Found Week Dying Dignity Finals Finals Week

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.”

Values Taken Week Conventions Polls

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.”

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Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.”

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Book:Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

Source: Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.”

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Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.”

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Author:William Lane Craig

“With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure documents now seen as bogus, there was a new "lawyer" joke every week. One such was: "The butcher says 'the reputation of lawyers has fallen dramatically', and the check-out clerk replies: "How do you fall dramatically off a pancake?”

Fall Week Involved Jokes Financial Congress Lawyer Checks Reputation Fallen Documents Butchers Clerks Disclosure Pancakes Drafting

Author:Charlie Munger

“One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.”

World States Found United United States Study Week Discipline Training Army Soldier Finest

Author:Daniel Inouye

“I could get a T-shirt that says 'All in for Week 4 of the Preseason.' That's not quite as catchy, and I don't have an endorsement deal with an apparel company. Maybe someone will sign me now. I don't make enough money to get fined. Maybe I'll get a deal with some off-brand or something that sells at Walmart or something.”

Enough Deals Company Week Sells Brands Shirts T Shirt Endorsements Catchy Apparel Walmart

Author:Kirk Cousins

“I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know? It'll be three years now since those wins, but the last couple of years I've just really been trying to put my miles in, get them up there to 80 miles a week, 90 miles a week and put the work in again.”

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Author:Carrie Tollefson

“The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody says, 'I don't have the time.' It's up to you to say, 'I do have the time.' For me, beginning to run when I was a student was an ideal situation. However, I've also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life”

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Author:Bill Rodgers

“Then there is just running - I love it. I would go out and just run a 30-mile trail run if it didn't make me feel like crap for a week.”

Ifs Feels Running Week Miles Crap Trails

Author:Dathan Ritzenhein

“No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.”

Hours Week Beats Forty

Author:Bill Rodgers

“One of the terrorist who was shot dead last week led us today to the hide out of the other 3 suspects.”

Today Lasts Week Shots Terrorist Suspects

Author:Joseph Ole Lenku

“I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson. I'd done a few short films before and thought acting was really creative, but when I worked with those guys, I was just like: "Wow!" They had such fun and freedom. They were trying things and stretching themselves. It was so inspiring that I was like: "I definitely want to do this!"”

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Author:Agyness Deyn

“For me, being onstage for an hour and a half, my confidence was really huge for me. Doing eight shows a week for a run, I was like: "I'm actually doing this." And now I feel more confident going into something.”

Feels Shows Running Hours Half Week Huge Eight

Author:Agyness Deyn

“I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I do Tracy Anderson's dance aerobics classes.”

Class Five Week Minutes Cardio Tracy Aerobics Cardiovascular Exercise

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week.”

Three Hours Week Dancing Latin Three Times Trainers Latin Music

Author:Sofia Vergara

“When I'm in focus mode, I do training six times a week. Carbs only in the morning. And I try not to eat at least two hours before bed.”

Trying Two Hours Morning Focus Week Bed Six Training Carbs

Author:Ciara

“I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.”

People Giving Trying Children Care Jobs Three Interest Hours Week Fields Picks Satisfying

Author:Warren Buffett

“I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.”

Character Rich Week Television Personality Length

Author:Jackie Gleason

“I have a treadmill in my house, which is great because even if I jump on it for a little bit, it makes me feel better. I love yoga and Pilates too. I have a private Pilates instructor I go to once a week.”

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Author:Holly Madison

“I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.”

“The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival.”

Persons Asks Answers Steps Week Honest Twenties Guts Smarter Rivals

Author:Mark Bouris

“The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.”

World Trying Nations Issues Week Killing Tiny Merit Pounds Submission Superpower

Author:Robert McNamara

“We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.”

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Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.”

Ifs Lasts Week Football Six Officials Slow Motion Replay Drogba

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always.”

Trying Running Three Four Week Six Training Miles Relaxed Three Times

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.”

Ifs Years Persons Doe Book Girl Next Week Hero Ten Saved Belts Drowning Heroines Next Week

Book:Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

“When you live with someone on the bus, for four days a week, you really have to get along.”

Four Week Bus

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“[Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.”

Trying Jobs Challenges Week Minutes Television Shooting Fringe Laurels

Author:John Noble

“It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us and look for something that has some traction with other people. But, it's not like I read 100 scripts a week, and then pick and choose. Maybe some actors do. I certainly don't do that.”

People Looks Different Might Actors Week Picks Scripts Lists Traction

Author:John Noble

“I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].”

People Thinking Knows Needs Stills Two Jobs Left Stuff Sound Differences Perfect Audience Week Color Rounds Timing Precise Two Weeks Mixing Left Out

Author:Ang Lee

“I try to keep my religion and politics separate. But I do prefer my stunts on Sundays. "I know you have a lot to worry about during the week, Jesus, but can you just watch over me, keep me alive, that day?"”

Knows Trying Jesus Watches Worry Alive Week Sunday Religion And Politics

Author:Steve Trotter

“There are very few horror shows, where you have a long running arc. Most horror shows play as a sort of an anthology. Buffy - a terrific show - had the-demon-of-the-week. Twilight Zone - X Files - these things had an anthology approach. Our show is a long running drama with the same creatures every week.”

Long Play Shows Running Week Drama Horror Creatures Approach Demon Zone Twilight Terrific Files Arcs Anthology X Files Twilight Zone

Author:Glen Mazzara

“I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.”

Shows Can Do Levels Week Television Proud Incredibles Producers Complexity Awe Broadway

Author:Robert Greenblatt

“But in the beginning, when you're looking at this and you're thinking about it, the CDC gets brought up to this place to deal with this virus and it's something that they've never seen. That, in itself, is quite frightening in a story because real-life epidemics are something that happen, all the time. I think there were just a couple of reported cases this last week in Vancouver of some people passing away with H1N1.”

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Author:Kyra Zagorsky

“I feel like I am very drawn to the short form stuff because it's just fun to be making something, and then, a week later, it's out. I will always be drawn to that kind of thing.”

Feels Kind Form Fun Stuff Week

Author:Roman Coppola

“I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.”

Shows Felt Cutting Week Tools Accounts Narcissism

Author:Mireille Enos

“If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.”

Ifs Stills Week Mad Work Out

Author:Mireille Enos

“People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Week Editors Cartoon Rushing Cartoonist

Author:Robert Mankoff

“Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.”

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