Quotes About Time

It's really great fun to go someplace where there are no timesaving devices because, when you do, you find that you have lots of time. Elsewhere, you're too busy working to pay for machines to save you time so you won't have to work so hard.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing

Het voornaamste probleem met die Tijdbesparingsobsessie ligt heel eenvoudig: tijd kun je niet besparen. Je kunt hem alleen besteden.

Zoals de dichter Loe Yoe heeft beschreven: De wolken boven ons sluiten en scheiden zich, De bries op de binnenplaats ebt weg en keert terug. Zo is het leven, dus waarom niet alle tijd genomen? Wie kan ons weerhouden er een feest van te maken?

Practically speaking, if timesaving devices really saved time, there would be more time available to us now than ever before in history. But, strangely enough, we seem to have less time than even a few years ago.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

You can't save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the spaces *between* the rewards, we'll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards *and* the spaces, then we'll have everything - every minute of the time that we spent.

Benjamin James Sadock

As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

If you file your waste-paper basket for 50 years, you have a public library.

What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.

It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.

Don't put off till tomorrow what you could do today because if you do it today and you like it you can do it again tomorrow.

The time for argument was over: Foucault wanted to crush an enemy, even though he claimed he loathed this kind of attack, in one of his last interviews.*

Rule 1. Markets are risky. Rule 2. Trouble runs in streaks. Rule 3. Markets have a personality. Rule 4. Markets mislead. Rule 5. Market time is relative

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

You can just start shooting things and see how it goes. But time is still money, so you have to know when you are finished. It's not like painting a picture which you could go on refining for 20 years - with a film you have to stop at some point, and that is no bad thing.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

Stories are told not to preach or counsel people but to reflect the dilemmas of our time.