Quotes about time
time cutting reality
The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality. Lewis Mumford
time successful goal
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement. Kurt Lewin
time children views
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category. Neil Postman
time book simple
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more Malinowski the more compelling the book. No Malinowski, and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.
time hands years
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. Marcus Aurelius
time each-day lasts
Live each day as if it be your last.
time men gone
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
time past men
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
time action unnecessary
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.
time past two
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
time lasts limits
Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.
time philosophical men
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
time giving something-new
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
time integrity insperational
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
time rivers
Time is a river without banks. Marc Chagall
time maturity insightful
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. Thomas A. Edison
time humans human-beings
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
time loss lost-friendship
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
time men years
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. Ralph Waldo Emerson
time wall sleep
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
time single-mom moments
If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment. Shekhar Kapur
time thinking lunch
God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" . . . . "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" . . . . "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet." Shel Silverstein
time profound meditation
Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time. Sharon Salzberg
time life-is-like steps
Life is like walking you take one step at a time. Taylor Swift
time stress humor
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Leonard Bernstein
time form aspect
One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still. La Monte Young
time nurse
Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience. John Keats
time years moments
O aching time! O moments big as years!
time once-upon-a-time
Once upon a time when there was no time. John D. Barrow
time use feels
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. Lisa Alther
time live-in-the-moment important
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power. Leo Tolstoy
time waiting knows
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
time night climbing-up
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice Peter Gabriel