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Time

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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 the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paul Klee

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

32.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Ovid

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

42.

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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman