Motivational Quotes

Time

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Frost, Robert

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

Otway, Thomas

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

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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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

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Plutarch

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare