Time Spent Quotes - Page 5

• The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Country, Son, Rights

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.56, Macmillan

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• No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don’t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Waste

  "Stuff I've been reading". www.believermag.com. July/August 2011.

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• So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

  Colum McCann

  Dream

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.285, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.

  Steve Martin

  Adventure, Men, Land

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Law, Agendas

  Parkinson's Law ch. 3 (1957)

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• I spent an incredible amount of time during my teaching career serving on committees. I now regard the lion's share of the time spent in committee work as having been wasted. One of the great lessons learned by those who achieve is how to manage time.

  John E Ferling

  Teaching, Lesson Learned, Incredibles

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A friend of mine had this idea a few years ago. We thought it would be a great way to promote the sport and to put polo in front of a lot more people in an unexpected place: the romance novel. There's a lot of people that care about those kinds of stories, especially women, and it would help people to know what the polo life is all about. It's not just what you see in the newspapers or on Pretty Woman. There's a lot more to it: the time spent in the barn, how much we love the horses, the relationship with the horses and with the family, etc.

  Nacho Figueras

  Sports, Horse, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Matter, Remember

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.87, Broadway Books

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• Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Time, Faithful, Arguing

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.65, Basic Books

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• Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Wish, Looks

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.606, Library of America

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• Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

  Robert Breault

  Beautiful, Clever, Wish

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• Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

  Adora Svitak

  Worry

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• Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

  Jasper Fforde

  Time, Tea, Firsts

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• I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Time, Giving Up

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Workout, Believe

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• You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.

  Andy Borowitz

  Christmas, Want, Return

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• Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Meaningful, Racing, Training

  "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.

  Reeve Carney

  Art, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

  Salar Kamangar

  Thinking, Web Content, Video

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• In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.

  Daniel Levitin

  Art, Drama, Mean

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• In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

  William James

  Strong, New Experiences, Years

  William James (2007). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.625, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.

  Susan RoAne

  Success Of Others, Investment, Share

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• Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Reading

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• I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Views, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.134, Harmony

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• Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Giving, Intuition

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