Quotes About Time

The North method took only a few hours. Contrast this with Dr. South's automobile-purchasing crusade—a process that took him at least sixty hours. And, of course, Dr. North likes to keep his cars for a long time. So his allocation of purchasing time is spread over several years. On average, he devotes less than an hour a year to purchasing motor vehicles. But Dr. South likes to buy a new car every year. Thus, his sixty-hour project is typically allocated to only one year. FEARS

Although millionaires have much more experience in making investment decisions, they allocate significantly more hours than do nonmillionaires in an effort to become even better investors. That is one of the main reasons that millionaires remain wealthy. Business

Economic independence belongs to those with the willingness to allocate time, money, energy, and cognitive resources to achieve financial goals.

costs of this so-called deal in time and effort? Most high-income generators, whether they are PAWs or UAWs, work more than forty hours a week. Typically, the amount of time remaining each week is allocated in ways that are congruent with their goals. All

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

Delay is preferable to error.

as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil , perhaps with only Homer alone.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constitution those powers which time and trial show are still wanting

A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.

NEVER PUT OFF FOR TOMORROW, WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

I find friendship to be like wine. Raw when new. Ripened with age.

There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

You are now old enough to know how very important to your future life will be the manner in which you employ your present time

Slavery] will yield in time to temperate & steady pursuit, to the enlargement of the human mind, and its advancement in science. We are not in a world ungoverned by the laws and the power of a superior agent, our efforts are in his hand, and directed by it; and he will give them their effect in his own time.

It was the first time Oskar had seen this juxtaposition of humans and cattle cars, and it was a greater shock than hearing of it.

The more orthodox of the ghetto had a slogan — 'An hour of life is still life.

The more orthodox of the ghetto had a slogan - An hour of life is still life.

There is a time for every thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable afterwards.

The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.