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• I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

  Mike Weir

  Kids, Golf, Winning

  Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

  Sela Ward

  Half, Scripts, Sitcom

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• That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

  Adam Yauch

  Way, Records, Strange

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• Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

  Claire Danes

  Opportunity, Clock

  "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.

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• If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.

  Jeremy Piven

  Dark, Giving, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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• What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Two

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• The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Long, Wages, Unions

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Perseverance, Progress, Enthusiasm

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• The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Ideas, Whole, Visualization

  Claude M. Bristol (2013). “The Magic of Believing”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Heaven, Ashamed

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Education, Time, Buckets

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• Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Change, Valentines Day, Long

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.89, Conari Press

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• In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Crazy, Rip

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• I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Mother, Law, Two

  "The Playlist Profile: Melanie Lynskey Talks Hollywood, ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ ‘Heavenly Creatures’ & More" by Maris James, www.indiewire.com. September 04, 2012.

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• The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

  Mike Love

  Sound, Ends, Frustrating

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• Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

  Sandra Lee

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sweat, Two, Burning

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

  Tommy Lee

  Sorry, Thinking, Records

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• About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

  Anson Mount

  Distance, Years, Long

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. December 2012.

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• I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

  Ben Marcus

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!

  Cristin Milioti

  Couple, Two, Voice

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• We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

  Louise Mensch

  Media, Two, Common Sense

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