Quotes About Time

The actual teaching itself becomes lost in a sea of paperwork and teachers soon realise that the very reason they entered this profession constitutes only a fraction of their working day.

After time away it always makes you realise how special it is to play for England and what an honour it is.

I'm not naive and realise it doesn't make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time does come when you have to say someone isn't good enough and has to go. But commentators like Richie Benaud have shown that criticism can be made in a constructive or humorous way.

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.

You don't realise how long three years is until you go away and write an album.

When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by day; but would anybody become a writer if they realised at the outset what the working hours were?

I never realised 'The Return' would take so long to make - it was a very tough 'political experience,' and the post production in L.A. seemed to go on forever.

I have realised that it's important to dedicate time to a film and role, no matter how big or small it is.

I realised that you just don't know about destiny. You think you are in control of your fate but, really, you are not. There are other powers at work. You don't get to see the full picture until decades later.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising.

I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I believe in sensible, moderate exercise. I try to do something every day, at least 20 minutes per day. I don't think it's realistic to ask people to work out 90 minutes a day.

We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.

I went goodness knows how long without a bath.