Quotes About Time

Little things like time and generations don't matter very much with good friends who are fond of each other's company.

Wow. Every time I think I've seen the far horizon of her lunacy, she sails right on over it...

And if, behind closed eyes, Cerris saw a face other than hers, a face so slightly younger, gazing at him sadly across a gulf of lost years and broken promises... Well, it would never hurt her if she never knew.

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

When we feel like there isn't enough time in the day for us to get everything done, when we wish for more time," wrote sociologist Christine Carter, "we don't actually need more time. We need more stillness.

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

Like airlines, we routinely overbook ourselves, fearful of any unused capacity, confident that we can fit everything in. We fear that if we don't cram as much as possible into our day, we might miss out on something fabulous, important, special, or career advancing. But there are no rollover minutes in life. We don't get to keep all that time we "save." It's actually a very costly way to live.

Newborns (0–3 months): 14–17 hours Infants (4–11 months): 12–15 hours Toddlers (1–2 years): 11–14 hours Preschoolers (3–5): 10–13 hours School-age children (6–13): 9–11 hours Teenagers (14–17): 8–10 hours Young adults (18–25): 7–9 hours Adults (26–64): 7–9 hours Older adults (65+): 7–8 hours

vivimos nuestras vidas con prisa, intentando encontrar y ahorrar tiempo, nos encontraremos siempre faltos de él, estresados y exhaustos. «Hacia

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As Sheryl Sandberg told me, "I found that when I cut my office hours dramatically once I had kids, I was not just working less, but I was more productive. Having children forced me to treat every minute of my time as precious—

Yet our appointment with sleep is one we don't seem to mind missing, day after day, night after night. When we think of sleep as an actual appointment-- a meeting of sorts, with ourselves-- we're much more likely to grant it the time it deserves. Given that we now set alarms on our smartphones and smartwatches for things of much less importance, the work-down call is a great idea to adopt.

How did it get so late so soon?" he wrote. "It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

And when we're living a life of perpetual time famine, we rob ourselves of our ability to experience another key element of the Third Metric: wonder, our sense of delight in the mysteries of the universe, as well as the everyday occurrences and small miracles that fill our lives.

Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

A New Blueprint: Time to Renovate the Architecture of Our Lives

According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the more money you have, the more likely you are to suffer from time famine.

those at the top of the income spectrum are among the most likely to be time-poor.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

History is subject to geology.

And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.

Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive.