Spend Time Quotes - Page 2

• Don't feel obligated to spend time with people who pull you off the path of your life purpose.

  Doreen Virtue

  People, Path, Purpose

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• I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

  Nikki Giovanni

  New York, Careers, House

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Real, People, Leader

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• I won't quit my day job. I like restaurants. I don't do a lot of television, either, even though people come to me with projects all the time. I have to spend time in the kitchen.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Jobs, People, Kitchen

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.

  Ray Allen

  Nba, Play, My Family

  "Ray Allen Says He Won’t Play This Season, Will Make Decision On Future This Summer" by Jack Winter, uproxx.com. March 04, 2015.

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• Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

  Louise Hay

  Grief, Heart, Loss

  Louise L. Hay, David Kessler (2014). “You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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• I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are the boss and to have people act on your instructions and take you seriously. Like you call up people who are working for you and say, "I'd like to see such-and-such document," and they tell you that you don't need it. Then you have to spend time convincing them that it doesn't matter whether they think you need it or not, they're supposed to hand it to you.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most people know that's a bad idea - yet those same people may spend time every day worrying about their health.

  Peter A. Cohen

  Health, Ideas, Worry

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• Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.

  Catherine Cardinal

  Self Esteem, Healthy, Attention

  Catherine Cardinal (1998). “The Ten Commandments of Self-Esteem”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Jobs, Goal

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

  Dick Cheney

  Time, Government, President

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• The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Sorry

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2017

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• If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high.

  Tony Dungy

  Differences, People, Understanding

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.13, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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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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• Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.

  Tia Mowry

  Mom, Becoming, Hours

  "Hey, Game Fans! Tia Mowry Just Dished To Me On Her Current Obsession (Hint: It's Stuffed) And The Weirdest Thing In Her Louis Vuitton" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. January 10, 2012.

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• It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim.

  Steve Almond

  Emotional, Journey, Self

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• Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

  Jason Ellis

  Character, Giving, Fantasy Stories

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• I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.

  Alan Shearer

  Daughter, Dad, Golf

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• Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

  Grete Waitz

  Two, Stronger, Months

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• The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

  Jackie Collins

  Baby, Husband, Sometimes

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• I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician."

  Jerry Garcia

  Play, Musician, Certain

  Source: medium.com

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• The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each department, and they know the language of how to communicate with each department well enough, so that their vision is clearly transferred to the screen. So I like to spend time on sets learning from all of the departments and seeing how they approach their jobs. It's not just filmmakers, you know? There's so many mediums involved. I love learning about all of the mediums.

  Logan Lerman

  Jobs, Growing Up, Vision

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.

  David Simon

  Voice, Choices, Silence

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• I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional breakI meditate because it's such a relief to spend time ignoring myselfI meditate because I'm building myself a bigger and better perspective, and occasionally I need to add a new window.

  Wes Nisker

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Perspective

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