My Time Quotes - Page 15

• I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.

  Sam Walton

  Opportunity, Ideas, Listening

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.293, Bantam

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• In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Writing, Expression, Secret

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• As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

  Katherine Paterson

  Taken, Writing, Looks

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Writing, Lines

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• I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.

  Katerine Savard

  Morning, Athlete, Swimming

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• Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they are doing interviews, which I find disrespectful, pink boots, green boots, you name it they've got it, tights - they'll be wearing skirts next.

  Paul Ince

  Football, Black And White, Names

  "Notts County's Paul Ince slams modern football trends". "Late Kick Off Midlands" with Dan Walker, news.bbc.co.uk. Februry 28, 2011.

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• Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how I've tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I've been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: 'Man, I wish I'd gotten laid more'.

  Richard M. Weiner

  Sex, Regret, Past

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• I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

  William E. Gladstone

  Bible, Men, Followers

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• I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Christian, Blessed, Soul

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• I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Luigi Pirandello (2017). “Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba”, p.310, Princeton University Press

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• I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Men

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

  Michelle Kwan

  Fun, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New Day, Looks, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3883, Delphi Classics

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• I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.

  Charles Oakley

  Eggs, One Day, Soup

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• I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Ideas, Cameras

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• If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

  Maya Rudolph

  Kids, Yesterday, Ifs

  "Maya Rudolph's DOs and...More DOs!". Interview with Jessica Duncan, www.glamour.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

  Ava Gardner

  Scotch, Glasses, Hands

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• Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

  Ione Skye

  Women, Waste, Wasting My Time

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• I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

  Christian Slater

  Past, Done, Littles

  "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.

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• I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life

  Jennifer Connelly

  Long, Want, Living My Life

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• One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Kissing, Men, Skills

  "Pop Tarts: 'The Rock' Says Kissing Steve Carell Was 'Fantastic'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2008.

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• The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

  Lisa Ling

  Girl, Helping Others, Impact

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too

  Max von Sydow

  Movie, Country, Opportunity

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• If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, New York, Museums

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