Quotes About Time

A successful manager told me that stopped wearing a watch. She found that the work was so immersive, anchoring it to whatever hour it happened to be was pointless. The watch reminded her of the rigors of appointments and the status quo, while her goal was to be there, right here, right now, in the moment, and to do the work in front of her. The watch had no role in doing that right, so, for now, it's gone.

It's not for you- It shows the ability to respect someone enough that you're not going to waste their time. It's the freedom to ignore the critics who don't get the joke.

Time to get off the social media merry-go-round that goes faster and faster but never gets anywhere.

The moment you are willing to sell your time for money is the moment you cease to be the artist you're capable of being.

The time we spend worrying is actually time we're spending trying to control something that is out of our control.

Nine women can't have a baby in one month, no matter how closely they coordinate their work.

The significance of a bit depends not just on its value but on how that value affects other bits over time, as part of the continued information processing that makes up the dynamical evolution of the universe.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

We were, fair queen, / Two lads that thought there was no more behind / But such a day to-morrow as to-day, / And to be boy eternal.

You don't have to die in the next year if you die this year.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands.

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers- the bluebells Joanna had so loved- and at that moment he'd willingly have bartered all his tomorrows for but one yesterday.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

Rumors are the easiest of all crops to tend, Richard. You need only sow a few seeds about and in no time at all, you'll reap a harvest of hatred.