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Quotes About Time

The moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare.
~ Margaret George
We want the sharers of our youth to remain forever young, to remind us of what we were, not of what we are.
~ Margaret George
Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic activity, they're actually wasting time. And
~ Margaret Heffernan
Over 100 years of research into productivity has shown that, after about forty hours a week, when we work longer, we make more mistakes – and the extra time goes to cleaning them up, the mess we made. 'We see it here in England and in the
~ Margaret Heffernan
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
~ Margaret Mead
So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time." "I hope not. It's a girl.
~ Margaret Mitchell
She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.
~ Margaret Mitchell
This is war time. We can't think of the proprieties now.
~ Margaret Mitchell
After all, to-morrow is another day.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.
~ Phil Cooke
Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.
~ Santiago Calatrava
Technology has the shelf life of a banana.
~ Scott McNealy
The world is coming to an end in 1950.
~ Henry Adams
The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
~ Kerry Packer
We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.
~ Sherry Turkle
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
~ George H. W. Bush
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
~ Andre Heller
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
~ Regis McKenna
We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion, or $1 for every hour it has wasted.
~ Andy Borowitz
I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.
~ Jonathan Trigell
Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.
~ Leonard Schiff