Quotes About Shorten

Mortality often gatecrashes my consciousness when the outside world presents an obvious parallel: as evening falls, as the days shorten, or towards the end of a long day's hiking.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

Alfred promised me that he would do just that—work for four weeks and on the fifth take a complete rest. That's the only way to arrange it because a man who's deeply involved can't shorten his work day very easily but he can organize a complete break. Unhappily, Alfred didn't do this. That's why he died.

Ik antwoord niet eens meer, ga op een divan liggen en slaap om de tijd, de stilte, de verschrikkelijke angst ook, te verkorten, want te doden zijn ze niet.

learned from those I interviewed that tax efficiency is one of the most direct pathways to shorten the time it takes to get from where you are now to where you want to be financially.

One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, wilful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.'

It lies in the power of man, either permissively to hasten, or actively to shorten, but not to lengthen or extend the limits of his natural life. He only (if any) hath the art to lengthen out his taper that puts it to the best advantage.

Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it

By seeing problems as they occur and swarming them until effective countermeasures are in place, we continually shorten and amplify our feedback loops, a core tenet of virtually all modern process improvement methodologies. This maximizes the opportunities for our organization to learn and improve.

Najsmaczniejszy jest ten papieros przed ?niadaniem. Skraca ?ycie. Od wielu lat mozolnie skracam sobie ?ycie. I wszyscy ukradkiem skracaj? swoj? egzystencj?. Co? w tym musi by?. Jaki? wy?szy nakaz albo mo?e prawo natury przeludnionego globu.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday.

They live in a culture that measures success by the number of copies sold not the number of spirits touched. They have to shorten their sentences and compress their sentiments to the common bandwidth.