#minute

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#know #minute #politics #room #unless

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. ↗

— William Odom

#always #consideration #few #firing #go

If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared. ↗

— David Axelrod

#completely #consistency #consistent #governing #high

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. ↗

— Edward B. Butler

#another #days #enthusiasm #his #life

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#know #language #listen #minutes #rhythm

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game. ↗

— Doug Collins

#chance #closing #coaching #course #during

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. ↗

— May Sarton

#comes #mind #minute #opposite #utters

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #beauty

But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer. ↗

— Sinbad

#apple #boards #bought #box #built

The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #experience