Quotes About Time

The important thing to remember about procrastination is that the perception of difficulty can be just as important as the actual difficulty. In addition, every day you don't do the task, it grows in your head, which makes the task seem more and more difficult.

The greatmen-scholars pass their mornings in gambling, afternoon with women and nights with thieves. This is how they pass their time.

One should not grieve for the past and worry for the future. The wise care for the present and chart their life's course accordingly.

sea of knowledge is very vast and life is short–so one should suck out the essence of all learning and cast aside the useless information by clearly sifting them through one's discertion.]

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

What if we use Einstein's special theory of relativity to freeze time? The reason is simple and precise. The idea of freezing time is to freeze our love; Love always young and charming.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born.

Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest.

For time is the measure of business, as money is of wares.

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time. We will first speak how the natural inclination and habit to be angry, may be attempted and calmed. Secondly, how the particular motions of anger may be repressed, or at least refrained from doing mischief. Thirdly, how to raise anger, or appease anger in another.

Another precept is to practise all things chiefly at two several times, the one when the mind is best disposed, the other when it is worst disposed; that by the one you may gain a great step, by the other you may work out the knots and stonds of the mind, and make the middle times the more easy and pleasant.

An ordinary idle king on a constitutional throne will leave no mark on his time: he will do little good and as little harm.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.

Me being a rapper takes up too much of my time. I can't really do the things I need to do, but I need the money.

If you started listening to me in the same time we started rapping, we're aging together.

When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

I'm in a rare position where I don't have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.