Five Minutes Quotes

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

  David Copperfield

  Years, Two, Preparation

  Source: www.bicyclecards.com

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• Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.

  Noel Gallagher

  Mad, House, Photographer

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• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Lying, Play, Double Standard

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• The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

  Celia Green

  History, Important, Lasts

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Want, Used, Minutes

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• [Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nurse, Buttons, Letters

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• Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Morning, Intention

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• If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.

  Ken Robinson

  Spirit, Hours, Minutes

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• Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Past, Reality, Dwelling

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• The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Reason, Beats, Minutes

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• Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  "Crouch rises to the occasion but Smith laid low with a broken leg" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

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• With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Looks, Band, Internet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

  Alistair Maclean

  Courage, Son, Men

  ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”

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• Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

  Mason Cooley

  Opinion, Minutes, Heard

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• I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

  Karen McDougal

  Sexy, Rip, Men

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• When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  Patrick Swayze

  Hot, Looks, May

  "Patrick Swayze Hospitalized With Pneumonia" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, abcnews.go.com. January 9, 2009.

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• It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, People, Ordinary

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Variables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be bad at all; in fact, you'd get to enjoy it, probably. Then away you'd go, and youth wouldn't be wasted on the young anymore. You'd be 25, with a 95-year-old mind. Granddad would start breaking into liquor stores and staying out late. Hope we have it soon!

  David Lynch

  Years, Growth Hormones, Mind

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• I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

  Brian Wilson

  Done, Four, Hell

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• There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

  Kenny Rogers

  Country, Love You, Rocks

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• I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out.

  Sienna Miller

  Maintenance, Lows, Minutes

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