Quotes About Time

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.