Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

- Douglas Adams

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Paul Klee

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

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

11.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

12.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Lakein, Alan

18.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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 devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

39.

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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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