Quotes About Time

You can't rush inspiration.

I want to have time for myself, my family and my friends. It's important because in order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and inspiration comes from life, from living.

What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

I do love Instagram, but even if I spend 15 minutes looking at stuff, I feel guilty.

I started my own chat show on Instagram, that also takes time. Then, I have also been singing and painting. I actually enjoy the down time that I get.

I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

Sometimes, you connect with people instantly, or you take time.

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

People want the security, the insurance, the 401K, and all that stuff and it's all crap, OK. There is no such thing as security. What you've got is right now - you don't have tomorrow; you don't have next week. You have right now.

You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out.

If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one.

If you take a long time over a record, you end up making something different from what you intended.

You have to be intentional about slowing down and not rushing to your next meeting.