Minutes Quotes - Page 14

• Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Long, Waiting

  Cornelia Funke (2013). “The Thief Lord”, p.114, Chicken House

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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• For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Lap, Way

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• Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It "had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat."' If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people!

  James E. Faust

  Running, Spiritual, Past

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• People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Children, Years, People

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• Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

  Steve Scott

  Running, Firsts, Miles

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• The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

  Kobo Abe

  Feet, Doubt, Shakes

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• It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

  Angela Merkel

  Midnight, Climate Change, Five

  "Road to nowhere" by David Cronin, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2008.

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• You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were braver than the French soldiers. It was just that they were brave five minutes longer. And in our struggles sometimes that's all it takes-to be brave five minutes longer, to try just a little harder, to not give up on ourselves when everything seems to beg for our defeat.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Giving Up, Struggle, Talking

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• When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

  George William Russell

  Running, Men, Rivals

  "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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• One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!

  Andrea Phillips

  Halloween, Numbers, Laughing

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• I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Names

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• The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Voting, Logic, Program

  "Viewers 'Idol'-ize This Saucy Search for a Superstar". USA Today, June 18, 2002.

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• Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

  Nick Mancuso

  Fame, Theme, Our Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?

  B. B. Warfield

  Book, Giving, Over You

  B. B. Warfield (2018). “The Religious Life of Theological Students”, p.4, CrossReach Publications via PublishDrive

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• I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but be alone and uninterrupted. And then sometime each week devote an extended time - at least one hour - to reconnect with your soul. How and when you do it is a very personal thing, but plan it because solitude doesn't happen on its own. Make it a priority in your life.

  Mac Anderson

  Priorities, Soul, Solitude

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• I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

  Colin Hay

  Careers, Erratic, Very Famous

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what's happening right now. When I spend time with students, they tell me that they've read something in a book or heard something from a teacher that they don't think they're living up to. And I tell them, “Take care of yourself right now. Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be or what the world should be like. This is where you are now. So how do you care for yourself this minute?

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Book, Caring

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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• For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

  Sue Wicks

  Team, Games, Play

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• Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second
  perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Writing, Light, Water

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• The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

  Bill Kurtis

  Boss, Important, Let It Go

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