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Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Best Quotes about Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Zappa, Frank

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Wells, H.G.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

Paul Klee

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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 is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall