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Time

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Jonson, Ben

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Wells, H.G.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Bixton, Charles

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Brown, John Mason

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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.

Jane Austen

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De