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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
William Arthur Ward
Today
God
You
Gift
Thank You
Gave
Seconds
Say
Thank
Used
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
Peng Liyuan
Saying
Soul
Eyes
People
Else
Meet
Seconds
Seven
Immediately
Eye
Eye Contact
See
Windows
Someone
Purpose
Lay
Habit
Color
Through
Contact
True
Like
Know
Look
Mostly
His
Them
Means
Her
When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
Eckhart Tolle
Time
You
Space
Sky
Car
Mind
Half
Energy
Trees
Seconds
Tell
Inside
Minute
Feel
Look
Talking
Around
Person
Get
Just
Door
Might
Breathe
Busiest
Body
Your
Your Body
Even
Shut
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.
Mariella Frostrup
Birthday
Relationship
Celebrate
Book
Dinner
Important
Partner
Other
Seconds
Our
Spend
Out
Parent
More
Invest
Weeks
Anniversary
Days
How
Friend
Friends
Friendships
Expect
Than
Forgetting
Wondering
Any
Where
Romantic
Working
Less
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury
You
Eyes
World
Made
Drop
Live
Seconds
Dream
See
Ten
More
Factories
Stuff
Dead
Wonder
Than
Any
Fantastic
Paid
Your
We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.
Raoul Peck
Time
You
Ignorance
Lie
Listening
Big
Down
Every
Seconds
TV
Follow
Propaganda
Absurdity
Feel
Stuff
Like
Because
Nonsense
Lot
Any
Stop
Taught
Middle
Want
Upside
Upside Down
After
Swamp
Them
Turning
Hard
Trap
Hard Time
Two
Speech
Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.
Hrithik Roshan
Life
You
Three
Seconds
Superhero
Takes
Am
Hits
Decide
Hard
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.
Nicola Formichetti
Dark
Social Media
Dark Side
Difficult
Side
Seconds
Out
Proportion
Taken
Within
Context
Up
Very
Get
Blown
Anything
Social
Swept
Media
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
Ashwin Sanghi
Day
Attention Span
People
Writing
Try
Drop
Ought
Seconds
Scary
More
Tougher
Writers
Part
Almost
Attention
Than
Get
Getting
Human
Maybe
Goldfish
Span
Turn
Average
Us
Page
Why
Humans
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
Slash
Guitar
Down
Seconds
Musician
Had
Picked
Put
Since
Up
Aspirations
Two
I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm working on. So if I'm on the treadmill sprinting my butt off or doing a grueling core workout, I think to myself, 'You can do 10 more seconds, and you'll be that much mentally stronger.' After a while, those 10 seconds add up!
Alex Morgan
Myself
Day
Me
You
Every Day
Try
Stronger
Whatever
Every
Think
Add
Seconds
Those
More
Mentally
Push
Doing
Sprinting
Off
Up
After
While
Little
Much
Working
Workout
Butt
Treadmill
Grueling
Core
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
Alison Jackson
Life
War
You
Matter
Nice
Live
Living
Enough
Seconds
Our
Way
Bit
Syria
Some
Through
Had
Had Enough
Over
Know
Fake
Real
Celebrity
Going
Anymore
Screens
Little
Little Bit
Room
Your
Switch
Living Room
Watch
Images
Programme
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
Elliott Abrams
People
Matter
Somewhere
First
Seconds
Say
Minutes
Between
New
First Impressions
New People
Up
Impressions
Size
Experts
Two
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
Hunter S. Thompson
Nature
Experience
Big
Sail
Ocean
White
Speed
Enough
Seconds
See
About
Feel
Over
Knot
Tie
Yacht
Am
Still
Than
Person
Just
Nostalgia
Anything
Mean
Racing
Certain
Sea
Less
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher
Man
Change
Mind
Men
Seconds
Rarely
About
Ten
Make
Make Up
Up
Very
If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
Douglas Tompkins
You
Culture
Cell Phone
Phone
Backwards
Think
Seconds
Everything
Wrapped
Entire
Through
Device
Without
Up
Cell
Goes
Just
Hold
Production
Your
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
John Lydon
Love
Love Is
Seconds
Minutes
Noises
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
Julian Baggini
Waiting
Phones
Google
Seconds
Our
Out
Something
Check
Messages
Unusual
Without
Queue
Getting
Us
Stand
Many
The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Saying
Time
You
Fans
Hilarious
Thinking
Universe
Seconds
Nine
Tell
Degrees
Eat
Could
Lead
Like
Venus
Pizza
Next
Cook
Next Time
Fun
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny
Time
Me
People
Sometimes
Long
Long Time
Become
Jazz
Took
Seconds
Say
About
Takes
Five
Fan
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling
Worth
Seconds
Distance
Run
Minute
Sixty
Unforgiving
Fill
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
Zac Efron
Day
Game
Made
Three
Lost
Overtime
Basketball Team
Seconds
Wrong
League
Ball
Passed
Still
Left
Grade
Sixth
Double
Team
Championships
Basketball
Nightmares
I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
Aaron Sorkin
Dreams
Good
Sometimes
Remember
Wake Up
Seconds
Good Movie
Dream
More
Couple
Because
Wake
Up
Than
Movie
After
Frustrating
Really
Watching
The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.
Al Jourgensen
Good
You
First
Side
Seconds
Know
Heard
Effects
Very
Commercial
Cannot
Product
Ever
Pharmaceutical
In 2008, Pistorius was the only guy who could run under 22 seconds at 200 m. So I said I would run as fast as that in London. I practised; I trained.
Alan Oliveira
Seconds
Run
Would
London
Guy
Only
Could
Said
Trained
Who
Fast
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.
Alan Tudyk
Thoughts
You
World
Reading
Action
Down
Seconds
Trip
Someone
Take
Tick
Heady
While
Really
Whole
Film
Thing
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