Quotes About Time

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup

Ma io avevo più letto libri che vissuto giorni, nel mio così fuggitivo, così inefficace passaggio lungo le strade degli uomini.

Tengo que irme, me dije, ya he perdido demasiado tiempo entre los muertos, fingiéndome muerto, olvidándome de la ironía.

youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. Should

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

So, ignorant of man and of the age that he calls ancient, and of the descendants following their ancestors, nature stays evergreen; indeed she travels such a long road she might as well be standing still. Meanwhile kingdoms fall, languages and peoples die; she doesn't see. Yet man takes it upon himself to praise eternity.

But he's a fool who doesn't see how swift the wings of youth are, and how near the cradle lies to the grave.

Felicità da me provata nel tempo [4418]del comporre, il miglior tempo ch'io abbia passato in mia vita, e nel quale mi contenterei di durare finch'io vivo. Passar le giornate senza accorgermene; parermi le ore cortissime, e maravigliarmi sovente io medesimo di tanta facilità di passarle.

Ahi ahi, ma conosciuto il mondo Non cresce, anzi si scema, e assai più vasto L'etra sonante e l'alma terra e il mare Al fanciullin, che non al saggio, appare.

Tutti i secoli, più o meno, sono stati e saranno di transizione, perché la società umana non istà mai ferma, né mai verrà secolo nel quale ella abbia stato che sia per durare. ( Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico )

Dalla lettura di un pezzo di vera, contemporanea poesia, in versi o in prosa (ma più efficace impressione è quella de' versi), si può, e forse meglio (anche in questi sì prosaici tempi), dir quello che di un sorriso diceva lo Sterne: che essa aggiunge un filo alla tela brevissima della nostra vita.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Mientras hacen proyectos para el futuro, cae de nuevo la noche. La noche es así, no hace más que caer; hay que compadecerla.

Linux addresses this issue by adopting an empirical rule related to the processor's cache size: the larger the processor's cache, the longer a process will wait for a piece of time on that processor.

second, the memory cycle time, describes how frequently you can repeat a memory reference.

Disse che mi avrebbe preso nove. In teoria la soluzione in un tempo così breve avrebbe meritato il massimo, aggiunse, però se mi avesse messo dieci avrebbe dato per implicito che non c'era nulla da migliorare e avrebbe contribuito a farmi sprecare il mio talento.

It got late, very early.

I close my eyes and try to find the sound of the clock in the living room. There it is, past all the voices, the plates and forks clicking, the feet walking from room to room. There is the clock, keeping up with everything as if nothing has changed at all.

But like all wonders, natural or otherwise, it made your own life seem temporary, and it told you things about the passage of time you didn't want to know.

Allow planning and discernment to take the needed amount of time.