Motivational Quotes

Time

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Time

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

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Paul Klee

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Otway, Thomas

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

10.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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.

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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 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 an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

22.

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 man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Lakein, Alan

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Arthorne, John

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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.

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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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

40.

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.

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Wells, H.G.