Minute Quotes
2355 Minute quotes by 1707 unique authors
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Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute…
— Sue Thoele
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The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.
— Robert Updegraff
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We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention…
— Sue Thoele
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My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me…
— Sue Thoele
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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and…
— Robert Updegraff
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If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand…
— Derek R. Audette
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To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute
— Michael Loceff
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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing…
— Marcel Proust
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Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners,…
— George Carlin
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To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
— Samuel Johnson
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Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should…
— Pablo Picasso
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
— Stephen Leacock
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You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second…
— Frank Sinatra
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What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a…
— Stephen Fry
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The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
— Ram Dass
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no…
— Tom Robbins
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
— Paul Gauguin
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Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have…
— Lillian Hellman
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What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an…
— Harvey Mackay
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I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
— Paul Klee
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If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about…
— Sean William Scott
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