Time Spent Quotes - Page 2

• Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

  Catherine Crier

  Memorable, Matter, Lists

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• Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

  Steve Goodier

  Lonely, People, Soul

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• Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Powerful, Simple

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Blessed, Long, Lost

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• Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Children, Educational, Play

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.69, Vintage

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• Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) × Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

  Tom Rath

  Thinking, Skills, Perfect

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• The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  True Life, Solitude, Impatience

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• Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

  Daniel Pennac

  Reading, Loving Life, Lifetime

  "Why I’ll Read 20 Books Before Bedtime" by Rachael Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.

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• Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

  David McCullough

  Book, Rewards, Infinite

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 20, 2012

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• If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Cute, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 22, 2012

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• He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Clothes, Bed

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• Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Stress

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• Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space — for wilderness and public space — must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fighting, Space, Imagination

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• I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Caring, Together, Bricks

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• Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.

  David Morrell

  Book, Years, Technique

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• I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Together, Firsts

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• When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

  Debi Mazar

  Fun, Effort, Design

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Goal, Decision

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

  Mark Consuelos

  Important, Together, United States

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• The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Mean, Creative, Faces

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

  Richard Louv

  Powerful, Cost, Way

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• If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Roots, Drawing, Profit

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