Minutes Quotes

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

  

  Crawford Greenewalt
  • Motivational
  • Planning
  • Execution

• Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Giving
  • Lost
  • Waiting

• I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like—I don’t know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.

  

  Catherine Anderson
  • Kind
  • Losing
  • Next

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

  

  Billy Packer
  • Long
  • Going
  • Here

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Andrew Michael Ramsay
  • Time
  • Events
  • Minutes

• The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Believe
  • Ideas
  • Rooms

• 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

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Danger
  • Announcements

• In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Stupid
  • Boys
  • Differences

• 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

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

  

  Eve Myles
  • Play
  • Theatre
  • Should

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

  

  Adam Rifkin
  • Minutes
  • To Do
  • Anybody

• In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Morning
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• 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.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Heart
  • Air

• If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Ideas
  • Goal
  • Humans

• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  

  Richard Jenkins
  • Meaningful
  • Minutes

• 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

• Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Crazy
  • Film
  • Hell

• Do something physical every day, even if it's just five or ten minutes of fast walking a couple times a day. That tends to replace fear and anger with determination and courage. It can change your identity, your momentum.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Couple
  • Walking
  • Identity

• This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Wonder
  • Missing
  • Phones

• The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Numbers
  • Paint

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