Minutes Quotes
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If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
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In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.
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For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
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Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.
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Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back.
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But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.
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This is going to be a long three minutes here.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for
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The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
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I got shocked really bad at a show once. We do this big intro to a cover of the Smiths' "Panic on the Streets of London" and I got a huge shock and went, 'Ohhhh!' We had to stop the show for 15 minutes.
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When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.
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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
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It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.
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A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?
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When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.
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I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.
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My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
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Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.
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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...
