Quotes About Time

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

Early is on time and on time is late.

It takes many years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Since I've retired, I sometimes not only don't know what day it is, or what month it is, I have trouble remembering what year it is. I can remember when I was six years old exactly what was happening, and I can't remember what happened yesterday.

The alternative to work isn't just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic. As much as I treasure the pleasure of torpor, it's never more rewarding than when it punctuates other pleasures and pastimes. Nor am I promoting the managed time-disciplined safety-valve called "leisure"; far from it. Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Ces experts, qui se proposent de penser à notre place, font rarement état publiquement de leurs conclusions sur le travail, malgré son écrasante importance dans nos vies. Entre eux, ils pinaillent sur des détails. Les syndicats et les managers sont d'accord pour dire que nous devrions vendre notre temps, nos vies en échange de la survie, même s'ils en marchandent le prix.

Le temps libre est principalement consacré à se préparer pour le travail, à revenir du travail, à surmonter la fatigue du travail. Le temps libre est un euphémisme qui désigne la manière dont la main-d'oeuvre se transporte à ses propres frais pour se rendre au labeur et assume l'essentiel de sa propre maintenance et de ses réparations.

Obnubilés par la productivité, nos contemporains sont à l'évidence très en retard, en matière de réduction du temps de travail, sur ces sociétés archaïques. S'ils nous voyaient, les moujiks surexploités se demanderaient pour quelle étrange raison nous continuons de travailler. Nous devrions sans répit nous poser la même question.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

Greg has never been on time in his life," his mother said. "Ever he was a boy, Greg has always operated on African time." In Africa, many people have a more relaxed attitude towards time than is common in the United States. What an African would consider on time, an American would probably think of as late.

But in the economy of grace, all of us are the worker who has only worked one hour, with

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will just stop. You could do it all day.

The Sioux regarded the universe as a living and breathing—if mysterious—being. And though they recognized the passage of time as measured by the predictable movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars, to their eyes mankind was but a flickering flame in a strong wind; and their concepts of past, present, and future were blurred so that all three existed simultaneously, on separate planes.

From the fool's gold mouthpieceThe hollow horn plays wasted wordsProves to warnThat he not busy being bornIs busy dying.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

And here I sit so patientlyWaiting to find out what priceYou have to pay to get out ofGoing through all these things twice.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

But I was so much older thenI'm younger than that now.

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.