“Twelve minutes. I can give you that.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
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David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross (1993), Richard Roma
“I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Variant: I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player
1966 press conference announcing retirement, as quoted by UPI, in "Sandy Koufax Announces Retirement from Baseball at News Meeting" https://newspaperarchive.com/pittsfield-berkshire-eagle-nov-19-1966-p-30/ by Alex Kahn (UPI), in The Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle (November 19, 1966) <br class="br">Context: I don't regret one minute of the twelve years I've spent in baseball, but I could regret one season too many. [... ] I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with complete use of my body.
