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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bixton, Charles

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

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

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.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

12.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Zappa, Frank

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Proverb, English

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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 will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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 flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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.