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• For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Sleep, Eight

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• Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

  Giordano Bruno

  Mother, Time, Father

  "The Ash Wednesday Supper". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Stress, Humor

  Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

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• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Men, Political

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Littles, Management

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Wisdom, Time, Power

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Time, Intelligent, Stubborn

  "Early Poems".

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• Time management is the mantra of my life.

  Vir Das

  Management, Mantras

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• To fill the hour──that is happiness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Hours, Crevice

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Memories, Past

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.84, eKitap Projesi

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• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.

  John Hall Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

  John Hall Gladstone (1872). “Michael Faraday”, p.41, London : Macmillan & Company

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• The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

  J. G. Ballard

  Time, Greatest Movie, Events

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• The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Time, Past

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• The present moment is a powerful goddess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Time, Powerful

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• Time is the rider that breaks youth.

  George Herbert

  Time, Youth, Break

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.311

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• We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

  Max Lerner

  Running, Time, Men

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Life, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

  David Allen

  Stuck, Getting Things Done, Lack Of Time

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• The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  World, Evolution, Life Is

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Ebb And Flow, Forever

  Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

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