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Quotes About Time

As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.
~ James Holzhauer
Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.
~ Vint Cerf
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
~ Natalie Portman
My parents worked and sold and hustled; they were gone from the morning, and I pretty much took care of myself. But in a Korean household, you're always eating with your family no matter what, and you're always cooking. And our food is not one you can just open a package and eat right away; a lot of our food takes time to develop.
~ Roy Choi
I sold burglar alarms for four weeks, which wasn't very long, but it was long enough.
~ Mark Bonnar
With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.
~ Zhang Zhidong
If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.
~ Mark Esper
But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.
~ Debbie Allen
So it takes years to make a solid company.
~ Ninette de Valois
I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.
~ Rick Tumlinson
It's impossible for me to sleep late. I generally wake up around 9, 9:30. I wish I could get a solid nine hours; it's always around six.
~ Scott Rogowsky
Local news taught me to take each moment as one of extreme importance - don't waste people's time. Give them solid information in a compelling fashion so they will remember it and use it in their lives.
~ Harris Faulkner
Too often, tributes to the home-cooked meal assume every family has a schedule that gets everyone home by 5:30 P.M. And too many recipes treat cooking as a solitary pursuit that requires the cook - still most often Mom - to take time away from other family interactions and chores.
~ Stephanie Coontz
I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.
~ Susan Cain
I remember going on stage for the very first time as a solo act, I was probably, like, nine or 10 years old. And being backstage, I started having anxiety... I was literally getting sick.
~ Alyssa Edwards
Ethanol is a long-term solution that will take time.
~ Sharad Pawar
Pace of play has been an issue for golf at all levels for a long time and I'm committed to being a part of the solution, not the problem.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
For a while there, companies were pushing technology on people and people were buying it. Now the consumer is really in the driver's seat. Now it's more of an overall solution: How can technology make your life better? How can it save you time?
~ Ted Waitt
There are no instant solutions.
~ James Callaghan
No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.
~ Dick Cheney
To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.
~ Aneel Bhusri
We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
~ Naomi Klein
A coach needs time to get to know the players, the environment, the fans and the culture of the club. You can't solve everything in one or two months.
~ Fabio Cannavaro