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Time

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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.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Plutarch

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Baltasar Gracian