Hours Quotes

• I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

  

  Sandy Gallin
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • House

• Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Situation
  • Accepting
  • Responsible

• Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Pleasure
  • Hours

• Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Time
  • Events
  • Lapses

• Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Children
  • Business

• What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Sometimes after a few hours sleep I have a little grizzle but I very rarely bite back.

  

  Keith Charles Flint The Prodigy
  • Sleep
  • Hours
  • Grizzle

• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Kind

• I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Trying
  • Morning
  • Careers

• There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Baby
  • Differences

• The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Study

• I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

  

  William G. Tapply
  • Great
  • Fishing
  • Paid

• The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

  

  Gene Brown
  • Sleep
  • Hours
  • Setting

• It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Film
  • Littles
  • Half

• Living with Bernard Leach, who thought about pottery 24 hours a day, was a fantastic experience, and we really began to get inside his mind and understand what had motivated him to work all his life as a potter.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Mind
  • Motivated
  • Fantastic

• Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

  

  William Cowper
  • Long
  • Winter
  • Comfort

• Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Film
  • Eating
  • Concern

• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Hours
  • Term
  • Apple-pie

• I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Desire
  • Lust
  • Carpet

• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  

  Karen Walton
  • Writing
  • Surprise
  • Opened

• I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Impossible
  • Hours
  • Digital

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