One Hour Quotes - Page 7

• Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.

  Jack Canfield

  Thinking, Research, Action

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• Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Disappointment, Mistake, Grateful

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• Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Horse, Moon, Greatness

  Mary Pope Osborne (2014). “High Time for Heroes”, p.11, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.238

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• Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Inspirational, Joy, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.179

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• Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

  Bob Ross

  Touching, Firsts, Students

  "Television: Bob Ross, the Frugal Gourmet of Painting" by Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times, Section 2; Page 33; Column 1, December 22, 1991.

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• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Fifty, Defining

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• One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

  Mark Twight

  Three, Week, Hours

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• After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

  Peter Vecsey

  Basketball, Earthquakes, Lasts

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• Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Morning, Book

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Effort

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance”, p.665, 谷月社

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• It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Years, Hours

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• One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Age, Hours

  "The Rover". Play by Aphra Behn, Part II, Act V, 1677.

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• If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Book

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• Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

  Jimmy Page

  Years, Rehearsal, Wonderful

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• A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Political, Damage, Week

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• My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

  Katherine Moennig

  Funny, Friendship, Growing Up

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• It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sleep, Past, Hands

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Meditation, Hours

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

  George Berkeley

  Angel, Thinking, Dungeons

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1820). “The Works of George Berkeley”, p.66

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• I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Space, Giving, Details

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• It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

  Miriam Makeba

  Play, Long, World

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• I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

  Max Lucado

  Weekend, People, Hours

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

  Elizabeth I

  Hype, Deception, Praying

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