Motivational Quotes

Time

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dane, Frank

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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 is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Gissing, George Robert