Hours Quotes - Page 20

• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Time, Real, War

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• Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Healing, Europe

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Data, Answers

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• A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Change, Sleep, Destiny

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• More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Years, Law, Voice

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• But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

  David Letterman

  Mother, New Year, New York

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Thinking, Here I Am

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Sleep, Eight, Years

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

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• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Coffee, Writing, Sunday

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• May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sleep, Men, Night

  H. P. Lovecraft (2011). “H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection”, p.319, Boris Lariushin

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• And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Rain, Flower, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.260

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• Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Sweat, Giving

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• Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

  John Denver

  Humorous, Night, Ohio

  Song: Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio

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• I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.

  Guy Pearce

  Running, Mean, Eight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.

  Kate Hudson

  Mother, Feelings, Want

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• I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.

  Carmine Gallo

  Work, Writing, Joy

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• I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Flower, Moving, Tired

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• I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.

  Matt Frewer

  Girl, Teacher, Drama

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• My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

  Jessica Valenti

  Party, Commitment, College

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• There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Passing, Enjoy, Our Time

  "The Lake". Poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• I can't even imagine what it's like to run for 5 or 6 hours.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Imagine, I Can

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• Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge.

  Samantha Ettus

  Strong Women, Reading, Love Is

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• The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Ribbons, Ends, I Can

  Brenna Yovanoff (2013). “Paper Valentine”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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