Quotes About Time

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with.

but time and chance happeneth to them all.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11

This person will have been born in a

con trabajo duro, planificación sabia e independencia o cooperación con un pequeño grupo, la recompensa es sólo cuestión de tiempo».

None of those things, though, will improve her math and reading skills, and every carefree summer day she spends puts her further and further behind Alex.

Man evolved to feel strongly about few people, short distances, and relatively brief intervals of time; and these are still the dimensions of life that are important to him.

We are all, at heart, gradualists, our expectations set by the steady passage of time. But the world of the Tipping Point is a place where the unexpected becomes expected, where radical change is more than possibility. It is—contrary to all our expectations—a certainty.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with. For a young would-be lawyer, being born in the early 1930s was a magic time, just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer, or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.

Tarihteki özel yerimizin bize sunduÄŸu özel f?rsatlardan kaynaklan?yor.

They're all between sixteen and twenty, so they'd be born in the late sixties.

Toate veÅŸtile noi sunt veÅŸti vechi care se întâmpl? unor oameni noi.

If, after aeons of time in hell or heaven or purgatory, I were to be asked what earthly life was like, I should still, I am sure, say it was a sheet of paper fixed in a typewriter and needing to be covered in words; not tomorrow, or next week, or next year but now.

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

While success has hardly come overnight for me, it always comes.

You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

An important lesson: Things that look like an overnight success usually aren't.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.