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• I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Book, Writing, Men

  "Modern Times" with Larry Josephson, (American Public Radio), www.andreadworkin.com. 1992.

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• Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Three, Abstract, Minutes

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• Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.

  Jonas Mekas

  New York, Reality, Order

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• Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'

  Jack Canfield

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Doors, Car

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Gun, Doors, Two

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• We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

  Abraham Verghese

  Average, Physicians, Healthcare

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• So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

  Julian Assange

  Washington Dc, Coke, Putin

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• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

  Jack Dempsey

  Three, Fighter, Ends

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• If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Long, Sun

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• And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

  Tim Winton

  Reflection, Men, Judging

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• The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

  Jerome Groopman

  Cutting, Doctors, Average

  Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

  Jerome Groopman

  Average, Physicians, Stories

  Jerome Groopman (2008). “How Doctors Think”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Life, Mother, Boys

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• Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.

  Jack LaLanne

  Lips, Hips, Lifetime

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• SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.

  Jan Carlzon

  Years, Alternatives, Succeed

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• I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.

  Willard Wigan

  Moving, Watches, Half

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kids; 10 seconds of joy, 30 years of misery

  Tom Arnold

  Kids, Years, Joy

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• I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

  Clement Freud

  Ignorance, Would Be, Insufficient

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Couple, Memories, Mean

  "Interview: Godfrey Reggio Returns With the Breathtaking 4K Film 'Visitors'". Interview with Zachary Wigon, tribecafilm.com. January 24, 2014.

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• I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

  Zach Braff

  Distance, Home, Trying

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• We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

  Linus Torvalds

  Doe, Linux, Infinite

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• Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Past, Brain, Body

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