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Quotes About Time

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, my actions matter.
~ Gena Showalter
Everything changed. The world. The seasons. Time. People. Nothing and no one ever stayed the same.
~ Gena Showalter
Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't spell later without the word late?
~ Gena Showalter
And in the span of a single second we were no longer across the hall from each other—
~ Gena Showalter
Today you live, tomorrow you die. Make what you do in the meantime matter. -Troika
~ Gena Showalter
Maddox held Ashlyn for several hours as she napped, hopefully reviving body and soul. Time was his enemy, midnight fast sneaking up on him, but he didn't wake her
~ Gena Showalter
Firstlife matters," I repeat. "Hear, hear," Sloan calls. "I'm looking forward to wrinkled skin, gray hairs and most especially the use of diapers.
~ Gena Showalter
What? My gastrointestinal clock was ticking. I wanted a food baby.
~ Gena Showalter
He'd heard the time seep away, a poisonous tick-tock in his mind, every beat of the clock a mocking reminder of mortality and pain.
~ Gena Showalter
Perhaps she'd done so to spite him, he thought. He'd tried to kill her, after all. And a worse attempt I've never seen. Disgraceful! His jaw locked in irritation. Now is not the time to think of her. When is a good time? Later. He could almost hear Death clapping happily in his mind, and he didn't think it was because the demon was eager to take Anya's soul. He didn't understand why the demon cared to see her, but he had no time to reason it out. The
~ Gena Showalter
But our present will always be the sum total of decisions made in our past.
~ Gena Showalter
When I flip you off, run. I've just told you how many seconds you have left to live.
~ Gena Showalter
Don't look now, but that's my ex over there." Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked. "Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?
~ Gena Showalter
When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live.
~ Gena ShowalterShowalter
We Are All on a Spiritual Journey It's encouraging to know that the men Jesus chose to change the world had human weaknesses. All of them had serious character flaws, including the apostle Paul. But God changed all that—not overnight, but over a process of time. They learned to love one another as Christ had loved them (John 13:34–35).
~ Gene A Getz
It is an unfortunate fact that no one has yet invented a Geiger counter which we can place over a man's heart and get a good read out of what he is really like inside. Time and time alone can accomplish that.
~ Gene Edwards
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
~ Gene Fowler
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. Patricia Bourque
~ Gene Fowler
You know, we're struggling, too. We've never had so many problems hitting our ship dates. My engineers keep getting pulled off of feature development to handle escalations when things break. And deployments keep taking longer and longer. What used to take ten minutes to deploy starts taking an hour. Then a full day, then an entire weekend, then four days. I've even got some deployments that are now taking over a week to complete.
~ Gene Kim
everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, wip gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting.
~ Gene Kim
To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.
~ Gene Kim
Unplanned work is not free. Quite the opposite. It's very expensive, because unplanned work comes at the expense of Planned work.
~ Gene Kim
We don't have time to do interrogations every time something goes wrong," I say, exasperated. "Get me a list of all the changes made in the past, say, three days. Without an accurate timeline, we won't be able to establish cause and effect, and we'll probably end up causing another outage.
~ Gene Kim
What that graph says is that everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, wip gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting.
~ Gene Kim