Quotes About Time

You just want a list of organizational commitments for our key resources, with a one-liner on what they're working on and how long it will take.

Dr. Seuss books, Oh, the Places You'll Go. The book describes the dreaded Waiting Place, where people wait for the fish to bite, wind to fly a kite, for Uncle Jake, for pots to boil, or a better break …

Completely disoriented, I look around and realize that I'm at work and that I must have fallen asleep while waiting for the Phoenix status meeting to start. I sneak a peek at my watch. 11:04 a.m.

How long the flight took on one of those old prop aircraft on any given day depended on the size of the bugs that hit the windshield and slowed it down.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

The Buddha preached this sutra for eight thousand eons without resting. When he had finished preaching it, he entered a quiet room and meditated for eighty-four thousand eons.

The number of eons since that buddha passed into extinction until now still vastly exceeds that number by innumerable, unlimited hundreds of thousands of billions of eons. Yet by the power of the Tathagata's insight, I observe that distant time as if it were today.

Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it.

Time is the fire in which we burn. Gene Roddenberry

You're not going to do this forever. There's a finite amount of time you're going to be doing this. Do this really, really well. And if you do this really, really well, everybody will see that, and they'll move you onto the next thing. And you do that well, and then you'll move.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.

Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?' Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.

How?' Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic reasoning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for them selves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.

Socratic questioning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for themselves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.

This sense of possibility might not last, of course Nothing ever did. But she wasn't going to spoil it by looking too far ahead. They were safe in the Library, and the Library would endure.

There were always problems in dealing with the Fae. Despite their human appearance, they were soul-destroying entities from beyond space and time who introduced chaos into alternate worlds.

How?" Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic questioning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for themselves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.

Stories are like that. They'll wait for you until you can come back to them.

Ac?iuni ilegale? f?cu Silver, întorcându-se c?tre servitorul s?u. Johnson! Am comis eu vreo ilegalitate? Johnson î?i privi ceasul. -Nu în ultimele trei minute, domnule.

I think the time for blind trust is long over. Now I need answers.