Quotes About Time

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

In general your brain stretches out time when there's a lot going on. That's why time seems to pass more slowly in childhood than it does in adulthood—because kids are doing so many new things for the first time. If you want to have a longer-seeming life, that's the secret...Keep trying lots of new things, and enjoy each moment!

The commercial break before Final Jeopardy is usually the only time that the show stops tape. You're given as long as you want to do the math required to make your wager.

End times will manifest: abortion, euthanasia, children carrying weapons, winter and summer will be confused, years months and days will be shortened," Lactantius Epitome of Divine Institutes 71

Man impatiently yearns to penetrate the future, but as often as not the veil which hides tomorrow is the merciful dispensation of a shielding Providence.

It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

Vive, vivió, vivirá. Muere, murió, morirá.

Age is a state of mind.

Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without a doubt, than the short little bits that you might get if you're into the 30-second digital mode.

When you're in your Element, your sense of time changes. If you're doing something that you love, an hour can feel like five minutes; if you are doing something that you do not, five minutes can feel like an hour.

As in typical factories, high schools and higher education in particular are organized around the division of labor. In high schools, the day is usually segmented into regular chunks of time. When the bell rings, everyone changes task (and often rooms) and starts doing something else instead. Teachers specialize in particular subjects and move through the day from class to class in separate segments.

One of the most basic reasons for thinking that it's too late to be who you are truly capable of being is the belief that life is linear.

The objective of this form of recreation is to bring a proper balance into our lives—a balance between making a living and making a life. Whether or not we can spend most of our time in our Element, it's essential for our well-being that we connect with our true passions in some way and at some point.

African proverb, "Life is like eating an elephant; you need to do it one mouthful at a time.

La tierra tiene una antigüedad aproximada de cuatrocientos cincuenta millones de años, un lapso de tiempo prácticamente inconcebible.

tienes que hacer?». La chica contestaba: «Tengo que buscar el mínimo común denominador». El padre preguntaba: «¿Todavía lo están buscando? Ya estaban haciéndolo cuando yo iba al colegio». Sé cómo se sentía. Sin

La edad física es incuestionable como forma de medir el número de años que han transcurrido desde nuestro nacimiento, pero es puramente relativa en lo que se refiere a la salud y a la calidad de vida.

And I knew them by name and reputation. And they were still doing fun things. To me, work was work and these guys weren't working. They were having a good time. Just like school.

It would be easy to get the idea from all this that Mimosa is some kind of genius, a veritable Einstein among vegetables. But there's no evidence for this at all. The reason all this work has focused on Mimosa is simply that its ability to move (and fast) makes it a convenient experimental subject, which in turn reveals just what a hasty bunch we are; other plants may well be smarter than Mimosa , but until very recently biologists had generally decided that it would take too long to find out.

If the soul wants to know God, it cannot do so in time. For so long as the soul is conscious of time or space or any other [object], it cannot know God.

Insofar as it is true, the idea that our actions or beliefs are merely one link in a causal link that runs back to the beginning of the universe is making a trivial claim. Insofar as it is saying something profound, the claim is untrue.

Conform unui str?vechi obicei oriental, trezirea din somn nu trebuie s? se produc? brusc, deoarece se consider? c?, în timpul somnului, sufletul se plimb? în alte lumi È™i, de aceea, are nevoie de timp pentru a se reîntoarce încet în trup.

Going against the customs of the Court and high society that consider it normal to make the lower classes wait indefinitely, Hazrat Mahal has never been able to accept this disregard for others, this manner of monopolising their time....this tendency to make them waste their lives, just out of indifference. She knows very well that for those who have nothing, offering their time is proof of their devotion.