Quotes About Time

You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Temporary becomes indefinite becomes permanent.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity

Humans had developed a sequential mode of awareness, while heptapods had developed a simultaneous mode of awareness. We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose. I

Milliseconds pass. My death passes before my eyes.

And these were conducive to a teleological interpretation of events: by viewing events over a period of time, one recognized that there was a requirement that had to be satisfied, a goal of minimizing or maximizing. And one had to know the initial and final states to meet that goal; one needed knowledge of the effects before the causes could be initiated.

Knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future.

required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

Practically speaking, today is yesterday and there is no certainty tomorrow will ever arrive.

I imagine this midnight moment's forest:Something else is aliveBeside the clock's lonelinessAnd this blank page where my fingers move.

the first two years of a dog's life equal twenty-four years in human years, and then each subsequent year of the dog's life equals four years for the human.

After all, there's a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm,

The patience of the spider's web is not disturbed by dew.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: What is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

door slams. Time passes and I carry on staring up into the sky. The pain went a long time ago.

The phrase "low and slow" was coined to describe the relatively low temperatures used for smoking and the lengthy amount of time it takes to infuse and cook the food.

Success is quest that will take me a life time to fulfill but it is worth the wait...

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

I spent 13 years in Spain, and when you spend that amount of time somewhere, it has a deep influence on you.

I was 14 in Barcelona, and when I initially went there, I didn't see my mum for six months and my dad for four months. Australia is far from Spain, but I don't remember how long or how short the days felt. I think what was most difficult for my parents was that if anything went wrong, they couldn't say, 'OK, we'll be there in a couple of hours.'

I came to Spain to play and get more time on the pitch.

I spent a lot of my childhood in Spain. My nuclear family lives in Spain and has lived there for a long time.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.