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Quotes About Time

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'
~ Laozi
Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.
~ Joyce Hall
When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.
~ Patti Smith
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.
~ Wietse Venema
You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
~ William P. Young
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
~ Steve Lacy
In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.
~ Lisa Guerrero
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
~ Ed Seykota
Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along the way.
~ Blake Mycoskie
I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.
~ Patti Smith
Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
~ Tim Ferriss
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
~ Billy Joel
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
~ Samuel Beckett
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
~ Stephen Ambrose
I'm sorry for writing you a four-page letter. I did not have time to write you a one-page letter.
~ Stephen Asbury
In truth, Lincoln tried not to carry personal resentments. "A man has not time to spend half his life in quarrels," he said.
~ Stephen B. Oates
In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
~ Stephen Baxter
Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns
~ Stephen Baxter
He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.
~ Stephen Baxter
Artists are born under Saturn and heroes must die young
~ Stephen Bayley