Quotes About Moments

Time seems to stop in certain places.

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.

I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering moments. It's just fantastic, where you can really go in there and be creative and everything.

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

Sometimes the best dreams came in the final seconds of sleep.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...

Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself.

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.

None of these attacks by leading members of the conservative cognitariat have been accidental or incidental; neither are they the only examples of blatant appeals to white racial resentment and anxiety that have been seen in recent years. They are, however, a good indication that we are far from the post-racial moment that so many saw fit to proclaim after the election of the nation's first president of color.

The Tail End" by Tim Urban on the Wait But Why blog—if you only read one article this month, make it that one. It

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE,

First, whenever possible, connect with others. Second, with enthusiasm, strive always to create fun and delight for others. And third, lean into each moment and encounter expecting magic—or miracles.

Your time is limited, so it's best to spend it with people who will make you feel like you made the most of your gift of today.

But if you don't cultivate 'turning it on' as a way of life in the little moments—and there are hundreds of times more little moments than big—then there's no chance in the big moments. . . . I believe that when you're not cultivating quality, you're essentially cultivating sloppiness.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.

Excellence is the next five minutes, improvement is the next five minutes, happiness is the next five minutes. This doesn't mean you ignore planning. I encourage you to make huge, ambitious plans. Just remember that the big-beyond-belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each "moment of impact," one step at a time. I've had a life full of doubts . . . mostly for no good reason.

What sets the course of a person's life are the ways he responds to the little moments. The character developed in a thousand little moments is what you carry into the big, important moments.

Brian and Kara look a lot like us. Like them, we forget that it is in the little moments that spiritual battles are lost and won.

The Bible describes the Christian life as a journey that often takes us through the wilderness. You will get tired and confused. You will have moments when you wonder where God is.