Minutes Quotes - Page 19

• I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Jobs, Crazy, Careers

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• Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

  Josh Duhamel

  Dog, Stars, Wife

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• I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

  Jose Mourinho

  Enjoy, Professional Life

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• There are rumors that there is a John Edwards sex tape. People say it's twenty minutes of Edwards caressing and stroking...And that's just the part where he fixes his hair.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Hair, People

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• When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

  Darrell Hammond

  Home, Florida, Parent

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• The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

  Arianna Huffington

  Average, Smartphones, Half

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.64, Harmony

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• I dreamt the impossible dream and I’m living it right this moment.

  Ed Sabol

  Dream, Impossible, Impossible Dream

  "Ed Sabol Achieves the Impossible Dream" by Paul Domowitch, www.philly.com. August 6, 2011.

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• Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.

  Georgia Cates

  Different, Normal, Yeah

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• To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary.

  Havilah Babcock

  Dog, Lying, Home

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• If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Politics, Contractor

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• When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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• I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes.

  Gregor Collins

  Ice, Cream, Jerry

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Animal, Agency

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• ...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Responsibility, Waiting, Preparation

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• During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put "mind over mattress" and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.

  Stephen Covey

  Morning, Struggle, Night

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• I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a program of regular exercise increases one's efficiency in every facet of life, including the depth and restfulness of sleep. And the time taken can be minimal; just a few minutes of calisthenics and running in place in one's room or jogging around the yard or block is often sufficient. Exercising doesn't take time. It saves time. Still, few consistently do it.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Block, Taken

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• ... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Years, Proud, Journalism

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• This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beer, Balls

  "Boogers Are My Beat". Book by Dave Barry, September, 2003.

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• The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

  Dave Barry

  Night, Garden, Zucchini

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• So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Promise, States, Pizza

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• We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past, and take good care not to anticipate the future. If we grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, it is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Running, Past

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.55, TAN Books

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• The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Use, Stories, Made

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• If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Forever, Looks, May

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• The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Spring, Flower, Garden

  Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

  Jack Charlton

  Change, Men, Facts

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