My Time Quotes - Page 20

• My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Art, Confused, Needs

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• Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Photography, Country, Art

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• My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

  Robert Owen

  Understanding, Important, Useless

  Deathbed statement in November 1858. "A History of British Socialism". Book by Max Beer, Volume 2, 2001.

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• Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.

  Donald Barthelme

  Girl, Children, Night

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Thinking, People

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

  John Frusciante

  Air, Breathing

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• I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.

  Andrew McMahon

  Writing, Who I Am, Play

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• Professionally, I decided to commit a lot
  of my time to California because there
  wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.

  Alice Barrett

  New York, California, Commit

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• For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.11, Lexington Books

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• Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?

  Inio Asano

  Balance, Determined, Right Now

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• I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

  Pierre Loti

  Museums, Remember, Periods

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• I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.

  Didier Drogba

  Country, Winning, Battle

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• I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Reading, Home, Cutting

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• For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Real, Use

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• Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

  Lauren Hutton

  Mirrors, Want, Waste

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• I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Brother, Believe

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• It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since I've had Kai than in any other period in my life...It's such an incredible catalyst for growth. I found myself questioning absolutely everything: how I spend my time, how I speak, what kind of projects I work on, how I look at the world.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mean, Motherhood, Thinking

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• However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

  Brian De Palma

  School, Quaker

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• I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

  Michael Faraday

  Funny, Time, Purpose

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Time is the most precious element of human existence.

  Denis Waitley

  Precious Stones, Elements, Time Management

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• Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

  Big L

  Parent, Mets

  Song: 7 Minute Freestyle, 2003

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• Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing one. It's like a tuxedo - I enjoy putting one on for special occasions.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Sex, Mean, Special

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• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  Ian Curtis

  Real, Mean, Past

  Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

  Anthony Minghella

  Taken, Trying, Would Be

  "Abbas Kiarostami". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

  Chris Gardner

  Wind, Differences, Shining

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