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Time

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Jonson, Ben

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wells, H.G.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

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

Plutarch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul Klee

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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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