Quotes About Time

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.

Indeed, we own a bond, my friend. That most sublime of all: reminiscence for our vanished youth.

It was an era when history butted up against mythology

You've got the watches," say the Taliban, "but we've got the time.

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. He knows that any job, whether it's a novel or a kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality. The

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

How else account this usage, that enemies of yore may, by the passage of years alone, become friends?

Eternity is in love with the creations of time. – William Blake

Eternity is in love with the creations of time means, to me, that in some way these creatures of the higher sphere (or the sphere itself, in the abstract) take joy in what we time-bound beings can bring forth into physical existence in our limited material sphere.

Do research early or late. Don't stop working. Never do research in prime working time. Research can be fun. It can be seductive. That's its danger. We need it, we love it. But we must never forget that research can become Resistance.

There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.

The product of careful continuity is love....Trust, intimacy, intense use, and time are what made these buildings work so well.

The operative principle for all is what Danny Hillis calls the Golden Rule of Time: Do for the future what you're grateful the past did for you. (Or what you wish the past had done for you.) That tells you the right thing to do.

Redundancy of function is always more reliable than attempts at perfection, which time treats cruelly.

she was struck by how long life was, and how much time had passed, and she wished she could go back and apologize to those closest to her, explain that she understood now. Impossible, and yet the urge to return and be a different person never lessened, grew only more acute.

Success to him meant having the time to do nothing.

Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give—not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.