My Time Quotes - Page 26

• After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

  Maria Semple

  Naps, Work Out, Demand

  "Q&A with Author Maria Semple". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Grief, Air

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• My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

  Kajol

  Children, Giving, Needs

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• All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

  George Orwell

  Law, Profound, Wickedness

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Female

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• ... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

  Gilda Radner

  Get Well, Cancer, Illness

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

  John Green

  Want, Ministers, Chaplains

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• Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Jesus, Holiday, People

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• There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

  Leslie Caron

  Dancer, Actresses, Jane

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• I took my time to find the perfect girl.

  Joe Namath

  Girl, Perfect, Perfect Girl

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• I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

  Kevin Keegan

  Taken, Fulham, Term

  "Keggy: I wish I'd turned England job down". www.mirror.co.uk. May 5, 2011.

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• I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Revising, Written

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• As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teacher, Hard Work, Writing

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

  Karen Duffy

  Trying, Energy, Manage

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.

  Jennie Garth

  Different, Able, Enjoy

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• My time of martial arts was traditional.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Art, Martial Arts, Traditional

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• One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Distance, Taken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Couple, Winter

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• I divide my time badly.

  Antonio Banderas

  Divides

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• I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

  Alan Lightman

  Morning, Use, Mail

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• The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.

  Colonel Sanders

  Country

  "KFC dishes up Colonel Sanders' autobiography for free" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Media, Social, Interaction

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• In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

  George Carey

  Unity, Growing, Missions

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

  Brandy Norwood

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative Juices

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• I live in New York and I'm in New York basically all the time. I spend a lot of my time in my restaurants, and I feel like that's why they're successful.

  Bobby Flay

  New York, Successful, Restaurants

  "Bobby Flay Talks Battling Alton Brown And Giada De Laurentiis On ‘Food Network Star,’ Loving HBO’s ‘Girls’ & Angry Bobby Flay". Interview With Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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