There are two ways to run your life. Managers know that their day is divided up in pieces for meetings, calls, and administrative tasks. Makers, on the other hand, need to have large blocks of uninterrupted, unscheduled time to do what they do. To create and think.
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Quotes tagged ‘Time’
No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives — worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passers-by, but to how many do each…
— Seneca, amazon.com
I wish there was a way to know if somebody was worth your time before you undressed your insecurities for them.
Time is a very misleading thing. Don’t dwell in the past. All there is ever, is the now and future.
Time is fluid...like a river with currents, eddies, backwash.
— Harlan Ellison, D. C. Fontana, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
Just because it isn’t happening right now doesn’t mean it never will.
Time changes with respect to measurable clock time; the spatial distance covered corresponds to the quality of the events, as changing time. And so it comes about that one and the same distance can now be shorter, now longer, according to the intensity with which in has been traversed.
I believe art is objective, and that time is the truth-teller of quality. If you could time travel 30 years into the future, tell me who is going to be more popular: Ed Sheeran or Ariel Pink?
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
— Ben York Jones, Michael Mohan, Luke O’Neil, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, imdb.com
I wish time would just stand still.
— Naoshi Arakawa, Patrick Seitz, Takao Yoshioka, Tsubaki Sawabe, Ayane Sakura, imdb.com
Always on time 'cause my eyes is on my Rollie-olex. I don't trust nobody, oh no; I don't trust nobody, put my homies on the payroll.
I once ate a watch. It was time consuming.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Time is precious.
No one's unbeatable. It's a matter of patience, which means it's a matter of time.
— Stefano Rulli, Paolo Sorrentino, Sister Mary, Diane Keaton, imdb.com
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
It will take years, not just a couple of months, of education to change their thinking.
And time is a dictator, as we know it. Where does it go? What does it do? Most of all, is it alive? Is it a thing that we cannot touch and is it alive? And then, one day, you look in the mirror — you’re old — and you say, “Where does the time go?”