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Time

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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.

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.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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

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

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Brown, John Mason

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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 spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Arthorne, John

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

Fleming, Ian

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Bergman, Jack

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold