Timeliness Quotes - Page 2

• Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

  Joseph Barbera

  Years, Office, Dots

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even God cannot change the past.

  Agathon

  Change, Time, Memories

  In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

  John Cleese

  Intelligent, Creative, Trying

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• In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Companionship, Late

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• Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Periods, Repeats

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• How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Merchant Of Venice, Praise

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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• It's not over until it's over.

  Yogi Berra

  Time, Memories, Anticipation

  "SPORTS OF THE TIMES; 'Any Scoop On Billy?'". Interview with Dave Anderson, www.nytimes.com. May 8, 1986.

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• The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

  Robert Grudin

  Faith, Time, Memories

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Memories, Anticipation

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1947). “The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology”

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• At times I think and at times I am.

  Paul Valery

  Time, Memories, Thinking

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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

  Pindar

  Occasions, Knows

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Genius, Weirdness

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• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Time, Memories, Future

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.

  Allen Lacy

  Time, Memories, Spring

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• For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.

  Russell Sherman

  Moving, Psychics, Two

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• Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

  Horace

  Death, Time, Memories

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Time, Memories, Believe

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• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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• The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

  John Evelyn

  Time, Memories, Work

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• If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

  William Blake

  Tears, Wipe, Woe

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.103, Penguin

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• In season, all is good.

  Sophocles

  Good Times, Seasons

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.141, University of Chicago Press

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• The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

  Clifford Stoll

  Data, Editors, Quality

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• My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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