Quotes About Time

A good sign as a leader is when output is high and meetings are short.

Most people listening to presentations around the world right now are hoping their speakers will end soon. That's all they want.

he possesses uncommon patience. He rarely checked his phones or gadgets. When he was in the room, he was fully present and generous with his attention. He listened. More so, he was an amazing manager of his personal time and attention.

Experience benefits only those who take the time to learn from it.

It may be," Doc Hansom the goatfish concluded, "that it is already too late.

I am spending what time I have left on this planet in hot pursuit of amazing moments, both those I can photograph and those that I can simply be a part of, no matter how small. I want to take big bites out of life. I'm not wasting any of my time and hope you aren't either. —Scott Bourne

well it's almost noon and i've done nothing all day, all my great plans shot to hell, of getting up at 7 and writing 3 new poems 1 new story 5 letters of sending out submissions to 4 new magazines and making several phone calls all by noon – so i'll just keep drinking coffee and reading from the stack of books on my kitchen table and maybe i'll go catch a flick and maybe just maybe i'll get half as much done tomorrow.

The heart's metanoia, on the other hand, turns without regret, turns not so much away, as toward, as if the slow pilgrim has been surprised to find that sin is not so bad as it is a waste of time.

Sin is not so bad as it is a waste of time.

His response really put the experience in perspective: "You have good days and bad days," he said. "But you don't know which is which until someday way down the line because you don't know what you will make of that experience.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Y es que la magia tiene que seguir su marcha apresurada, pero los amantes siguen donde estaban...

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

I wish I was older. And that I knew more than I do.

if a person, as one theory goes, is chosen to live in a particular time for one specific reason, then why am I here now? What moment in history is my life destined to intersect with? Or has it already happened, and I just didn't understand that that was my moment?

The activities you spent your time on yesterday were the things that were important to you. Calendars don't lie.

Procrastination isn't task management, it's feeling management.

Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

I'm, uh, going up to the room Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to get ready." "You've got at least four hours before we have to leave." "Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

Age has a way of exagerrating the physical traits of those who live to feel its strains; the round tend to grow rounder, and the slim tend to waste away.

The world moved in horrifying slow motion; Locke, who was no stranger to a beating, was cursed with the uncanny ability to recognize one just before it ceased to be theoretical.

In time, you'll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty's sake.