Minutes Quotes

• When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Minutes
  • Calisthenics

• I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.

  

  Carmine Gallo
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Joy

• Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

  

  Eve Myles
  • Play
  • Theatre
  • Should

• Success is how you collect your minutes.

  

  Norman Lear
  • Success
  • Minutes
  • Collect

• Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

  

  Crawford Greenewalt
  • Motivational
  • Planning
  • Execution

• 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...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Nature
  • Painful
  • Regard

• What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.

  

  William Shatner
  • Done
  • Success
  • Wall

• 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.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Shows
  • Streets
  • Shock

• The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Danger
  • Announcements

• Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • School
  • Book
  • Parent

• This is going to be a long three minutes here.

  

  Billy Packer
  • Long
  • Going
  • Here

• Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

  

  Erik King
  • Miracle
  • Everyone
  • African

• 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.

  

  Ray Nitschke
  • Minutes
  • Adrenaline
  • Packers

• Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Life
  • Years
  • Hours

• Basically, if you were a triceratops in Alberta, you had about two minutes before you got vaporized - is how one geologist put it to me.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Minutes
  • Geologist

• When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

  

  Michiel Huisman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Passion

• You've got 3 minutes to tell the world something. Are you going to talk to them about being wasted in your front yard because you couldn't park your car, or are you going to talk to someone about something that could actually help them?

  

  Isaac Slade The Fray
  • World
  • Help
  • Talk

• There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Months
  • Ancestry
  • Genealogy

• I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Pessimism
  • Angst

• The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Understand

• Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Laughter
  • Hours
  • Genuine

• The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

  

  Merrie Spaeth
  • People
  • Laughing
  • Minutes

• You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody.

  

  Adam Rifkin
  • Minutes
  • To Do
  • Anybody

• Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

  

  Andrew Michael Ramsay
  • Time
  • Events
  • Minutes

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