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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all the time. Like most beginners, I didn't really know what I was doing, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. I guess you could say I was a gym rat. Seeing my body change made me come back for more.

In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece.

The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

Now stand you on the top of happy hours,_x000D__x000D_And many maiden gardens yet unset,_x000D__x000D_With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,_x000D__x000D_Much liker than your painted counterfeit:_x000D__x000D_So should the lines of life that life repair_x000D__x000D_Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen_x000D__x000D_Neither in inward worth nor outward fair_x000D__x000D_Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

Friends now fast sworn,_x000D__x000D_Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,_x000D__x000D_Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise_x000D__x000D_Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,_x000D__x000D_Unseparable, shall within this hour,_x000D__x000D_On a dissension of a doit, break out_x000D__x000D_To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,_x000D__x000D_Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep_x000D__x000D_To take the one the other, by some chance,_x000D__x000D_Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends_x000D__x000D_And interjoin their issues.

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!