Time Quotes - Page 15

• To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

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• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

  Timothy Leary

  Soul, Gardening, Spirituality

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• Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Night, Light, Giving

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Thinking, Tyrants

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

  Sara Teasdale

  Kind, Old Time

  "Let It Be Forgotten" l. 4 (1919)

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• Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Sadness, Anxiety

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.6, Profile Books

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• People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

  Kiran Bedi

  Life, Responsibility, People

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• I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

  Mark Ryden

  Art, Sleep, Creativity

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• Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

  Adam Grant

  Appreciation, Worry, Choices

  Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.12, Penguin

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• Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'

  Mark Yarnell

  Zero, Freedom, People

  Mark Yarnell, Rene Reid Yarnell (2010). “Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!”, p.287, Three Rivers Press

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• If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Christian, Education

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• It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Life, Marriage, Death

  "From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development". Book by J.M.W. Slack, Ch. 1, 1999.

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• Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

  Anita Pallenberg

  Memories, Heart, Years

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• When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

  Romare Bearden

  Memories, Artist, African American

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• A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

  Julia Peterkin

  Strength, Long, Water

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• Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Inspirational, Children, Parenting

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• God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

  John Gresham Machen

  God, Hands, History

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• There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

  Marc Bolan

  People, Able, Musician

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• I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

  Lee Krasner

  Being Alone, Needs, Introvert

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• It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

  James Taylor

  Relationship, Song, Long

  Song: You Can Close Your Eyes

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• Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2012

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• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Perfection, Excellence

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• Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!

  Richard G. Scott

  Bible, God, Lying

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• What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Mysterious Things, Forever, Four

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• We never make a decision. When the
  time is right, the decision makes itself.

  Byron Katie

  Decision, Choices, Timing

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2010

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