Extra Time Quotes

• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Joy, Needs

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.

  Coco Jones

  Determination, Practice, Being The Best

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

  Doug Martsch

  Song, Play, Space

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Jail, Three

  "Steve Jobs interview: One-on-one in 1995". Interview with Daniel Morrow, www.computerworld.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Make sure that the career you choose is one you enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it will be difficult to give the extra time, effort, and devotion it takes to be a success. If it is a career that you find fun and enjoyable, then you will do whatever it takes. You will give freely of your time and effort and you will not feel that you are making a sacrifice in order to be a success.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Fun, Sacrifice, Order

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• We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Long, Lucky

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

  David E. Kelley

  Thinking, Retrospect, Able

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• I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Brain, Add, Needs

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• Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.

  Skylar Grey

  Artist, Blessing, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

  Eva Herzigova

  Mask, Extras, My Friends

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• Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Kids, Responsibility

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• Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

  Jack LaLanne

  Needs, Use, Done

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• Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"

  Reid Hoffman

  Good Luck, Entrepreneur, Growth

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.

  Harpo Marx

  Becoming One, Enjoy Life, Anxiety

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• When I have extra time I just go out to the Hamptons. I have a house in Southampton I go out to as much as I possibly can.

  Hilary Rhoda

  House, Hamptons, Extras

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• I like fighting at the higher weight. That extra seven pounds helps because of energy, strength and I can focus more throughout the training camp, without having to put extra time into making weight.

  Lamont Peterson

  Fighting, Focus, Training

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I like having deadlines... a film release date or a concert premiere date. It channels one's energy into doing often remarkable work that oceans of extra time would probably not improve upon.

  William P. Perry

  Ocean, Release Date, Energy

  Source: www.empressbooks.com

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• When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

  Sepp Blatter

  Drama, Talking, Tragedy

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• Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

  Gail Carriger

  Self, Trying, Should

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace. When they start claiming that they have discovered it before you, look for a new project.

  Efraim Racker

  Believe, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• I used to live on the other side of Canberra so it'd take me about 20-25-minutes to come into training. I was so thankful to have a car. Mum was also happy because she had all this extra time instead of driving me to training, waiting around, and then taking me home.

  Melissa Breen

  Home, Waiting Around, Car

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I would ask everyone to remember, in any situation we are experiencing, that we can come from a place of fear or love. I would say, however uncomfortable it may be sometimes to get to that root, to please take that extra time and courage to come from a place of love.

  Dash Mihok

  Roots, May, Remember

  "Dash Mihok Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

  L. Todd Rose

  People, Giving, Students

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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