Motivational Quotes

Time

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

- Ballard, J. G.

Best Quotes about Time

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.