Browsing Quotes With Tag: time (47)
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It’s amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.
Speaker: Peter DruckerPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all – plus c’est la meme chose, plus ca change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people consider forgetting stuff to be a normal part of living. However, I see it as a huge problem; in a way, there’s nothing I fear more. The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality. And since objective reality is fixed, all we can do is try to experience – to consume – as much of that fixed reality as possible. This can only be done by living in the moment (which I never do) or by exhaustively fling away former moments for later recall (which I do all the time).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 5:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As I look back at the best years of my life, I find myself wondering if maybe I wasn’t unconsciously conditioned to exist somewhere in the middle of two better stories, caught between the invention of the recent past and the valor of the coming future.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance.
Speaker: Jim LoehrSource: the Power of Full EngagementPosted: 20 Aug 2009 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Speaker: William FaulknerPosted: 20 Aug 2009 at 7:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This pause in time, within time… When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is possible only with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death.
...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance?
Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you dread tomorrow, it’s because you don’t know how to build the present, and when you don’t know how to build the present, you can tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it’s a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don’t you see?
So we mustn’t forget any of this, absolutely not. We have to live with the certainty that we’ll get old and that it won’t look nice or to be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it’s now that matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength. Always remember that there’s a retirement home waiting somewhere and so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.
That’s what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some who profess to long for immortality do not even know what to do with a single rainy afternoon.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Speaker: Beryl PfizerPosted: 12 Nov 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What you do with your time is a very big subject, because lost time can never be recaptured. Very often, lost money can be regained.
Speaker: Donald TrumpSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Someone once explained life as a credit card that’s given to us at birth – minus the expiration date. The time we have on that card becomes the big question, not the money.
Speaker: Donald TrumpSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most endeavors are like learning to speak a foreign language: to be correct 95% of the time requires six months of concentrated effort, whereas to be correct 98% of the time requires 20-30 years. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
Speaker: Bill WattersonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Speaker: Herbert SimonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!