Minutes Quotes - Page 12

• Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Life, Gone, Losing

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Opportunity, Numbers

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• One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

  David Lloyd George

  Justice, Waiting, Political

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• In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

  John Robbins

  Pet, Requirements, Lasts

  John Robbins (2000). “Debugging Applications: Microsoft”

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• Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Anchorman, Jesus, Block

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

  Eddie Irvine

  Fishing, Big Fish, Stories

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• I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

  Renny Harlin

  Real, Motor Oil, Experts

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fashion, Years, Church

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• You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life.

  Marco Simoncelli

  People, Bike

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• I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

  Donald Fagen

  Song, Enough Time, Four

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• With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.

  George C. Wolfe

  Play, People, Three

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• The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by which they enriched the nation. The whole of that wealth is held in trust for the people and used exclusively for their benefit. The cycle is thus complete; what came from the people has gone back to the people many times over.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Son, People, Gone

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• Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

  Sarada Devi

  Tree, Desire, Growing

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• It takes a minute to say hello
  Why? I wonder why
  When it's seems to take forever
  When you have to say Goodbye?

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Farewell, Forever

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• When you've got 5 minutes to fill, Twitter is a great way to fill 35 minutes.

  Matt Cutts

  Way, Social Media, Social Media Marketing

  Twitter post from May 10, 2010

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• Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Roots, Growing

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• And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.

  Ian Darke

  Soccer, Football, Gone

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• I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

  Julia Sweeney

  Realizing, Jokes

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• Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.

  James Adams

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!

  Edwin Way Teale

  Years, Understanding, Answers

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Stop your worrying, panicking and stressing. Breathe. Remember, you made it this far through difficulties that seemed impossible. Remember how many times you were saved at the very last minute -- this time is no different.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Stress, Remembers You, Remember You

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• And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
  Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
  So maybe I'll see you there
  We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go
  Downtown, things'll be great when you're
  Downtown, don't wait a minute more
  Downtown, everything's waiting for you

  Petula Clark

  Song, Hands, Waiting

  "Song: "Downtown" ("Downtown")". 1965.

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• It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

  Jacqueline McKenzie

  Dream, Thinking, Wake Up

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• My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

  Janice Dickinson

  Jobs, Eye, Blue

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