My Time Quotes - Page 26

• I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

  Anne Lamott

  Heaven, Quiet, Alone Time

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

  Stephen Covey

  Choices, Challenges, Asking

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• I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Thinking, Entertainment

  "'No Acid Was Ever Used at Atari'". Interview with Christian Stöcker, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2007.

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• When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

  Agnes Varda

  Virginia, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Procrastination, Tasks, Prioritize

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Team, Waiting, Important

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• Don't say I want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. Say, you know what I want to lose weight- say 30 pounds in three to six months for instance. But more importantly I want to knock out 20 pushups a day or I want to run a 3K a day and time myself, and try to beat my time every time every week.

  Jackie Warner

  Running, Trying, Three

  Source: candieanderson.com

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• Music will always be apart of my life, I have been given a gift of song and voice and I have to use it. I don't have a mapped out time when I should hang up my mic because what I may think is my time may very well be a time to continue.

  Mandisa

  Song, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.playitforwardmag.com

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• Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

  Tom Green

  Focus, Energy, Time And Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Ordinary World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

  Brad Feld

  Trying, Venture, Needs

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Meat, Soup

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• I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Waste, Wasting Time, Cold

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Team, Clubs, Position

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Prayer

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• I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

  Debbie Meyer

  Hard Times, Years, Practice

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• When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

  Roy Rogers

  Cowboy, Skins, Triggers

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• Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

  Peter Cook

  Happiness, Thinking, Things In Life

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• A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

  Ryan White

  Thinking, Planning

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• Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

  Sergei Bubka

  Sports, Heart, Want

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• My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

  William Scranton

  Tests, Suits, Take Me

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• I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

  James Beard

  Memorable, Simple, Eggs

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• I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Fighting, Hands

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• I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

  Chick Corea

  Art, College, Want

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• I naturally believe there will be a future, but I do not waste my time imagining its radiant beauty. ... It seems to me that we ought to think first about the present. Even if the present is desperately dark, I do not wish to leave it. Will tomorrow be free from darkness? We'll talk about that tomorrow.

  Lu Xun

  Future, Believe, Dark

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