Time Spent Quotes - Page 2

• Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub, and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Stress

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• Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

  William H. Macy

  Littles, Nine, Payoff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Atheist, Smart, Dark

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• In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Home, Police

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.96, David C Cook

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• Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Guitar, Ukulele

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• Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Roots, Drawing, Profit

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• If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Goal, Decision

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

  Mark Consuelos

  Important, Together, United States

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• The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Mean, Creative, Faces

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life!

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Giving, Mind, Months

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• time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Blessed, Long, Lost

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• Time spent with poets is never wasted.

  May Sarton

  Poet

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• Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free.

  Steven Sample

  Block, Believe, Creativity

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• A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Weekend, Differences, Weekdays

  Source: time.com

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• Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  New York, Thinking, Air

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Careers, Want, Savvy

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Your Children, Our Children

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• I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think about font as an aspect of text, you know, how something looks on a page. A lot of this is the product of a very solitary existence, it's like, language, I mean, you know. A lot of time spent alone in the creation of all of this stuff.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Practice, Would Be

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• It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hours, Masters, Valuable

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• Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Jobs, Thinking, Waiting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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