Quotes About Time

Every extra feature is a form of waste, and if we delay the test for these extra features, it comes with a tremendous potential cost in terms of learning and cycle time.

Why does stuffing one envelope at a time get the job done faster even though it seems like it would be slower? Because our intuition doesn't take into account the extra time required to sort, stack, and move around the large piles of half-complete envelopes when it's done the other way.

How much time and energy should companies invest in infrastructure and planning early on in anticipation of success? Spend too much and you waste precious time that could have been spent learning. Spend too little and you may fail to take advantage of early success and cede market leadership to a fast follower.

This is one of the most important discoveries of the lean manufacturing movement: you cannot trade quality for time.

Maybe I should have been more appreciative of what we did have together. Sometimes I ask myself what gave me the right to judge him? Did I do what I could in this marriage? So many questions and so few answers. But I guess I will have lots of time to think about them. Lots of time to reminisce. Lots of loneliness.

He couldn't know the future. He had to do what he could to save every person. Today. Now.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

This queer crotchet [of Hamilton's] that algebra is the science of pure time has attracted many philosophers, and quite recently it has been exhumed and solemnly dissected by owlish metaphysicians seeking the philosopher's stone in the gall bladder of mathematics.

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.

had less than twenty-four hours to do it. His musings were interrupted

war is long, life is short.

The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

P?i dac?-mi pierd timpul cu ce cred toÅ£i tâmpiÅ£ii, când s? mai g?sesc vreme s? aflu ce gândesc oamenii deÅŸtepÅ£i?

ViaÅ£a e un dar buclucaÅŸ. La început ai tendinÅ£a s?-l supraestimezi crezând c? viaÅ£a pe care ai primit-o este veÅŸnic?. Apoi, dimpotriv?, îl subestimezi, g?sind c?-i o porc?rie, scurt? de nu-nÅ£elegi nimic din ea ÅŸi pe care uneori Å£i-ar veni s-o arunci de s? nu se vad?. Abia c?tre sfârÅŸit pricepi c? nu-i vorba de nici un dar, ci de un simplu împrumut. Pe care trebuie s? încerci s?-l meriÅ£i.

Si je m'intéresse à ce que pensent les cons, je n'aurai plus de temps pour ce que pensent les gens intelligents.

The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Die Monate haben es eilig. Die Jahre haben es eiliger. Und die Jahrzehnte haben es am eiligsten. Nur die Erinnerungen habben Geduld mit uns.

Manches, was man als Kind erlebt hat, erhält seinen Sinn erst nach vielen Jahren. Und vieles, was uns später geschieht, bliebe ohne die Erinnerung an unsre Kindheit so gut wie unverständlich.

Alt ist, was man vergessen hat. Und das Unvergeßliche war gestern. Der Maßtab ist nicht die Uhr, sondern der Wert. Und das Wertvollste, ob lustig oder traurig, ist die Kindheit. Vergeß das Unverglißliche nicht! Diesen Rat kan man, glaub ich, nicht früh genug geben.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

A conexão entre o tempo, o inconsciente e o espirito lunar pertence, ainda mais profundamente do que tem sido demonstrado, a natureza essencial da consciência matriarcal. Somente através de uma compreensão adequada do caráter espiritual do arquétipo da lua podemos entender o significado da consciência matriarcal e do "espirito feminino".