Quotes About Time

Por lo pronto no se me ocurre qué más comentarte, bueno, lo que ya sabes, que aquí tengo todo el tiempo del mundo para pensar en ti, que es lo que suelo hacer cuando no quiero pensar en nada

That lost literature which only death reads.

Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out And in and out come and go One by one, none by none, What we know, what we don't know.

between the word and the world lie fading eternities of soon

She had become unmoored from the present, loose and untethered, her mind rolling back into her memories, rolling forward into the future, anticipating, and then dropping again into this torturous, unbearable present.

I know you didn't have much time with Sam. And it isn't fair. But that doesn't mean it was any less real. That's something to hold on to, so hold on to it" -Loretta

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Conscious fun takes effort. This seeming paradox—Why should fun be work?—stops us in our tracks. So we overindulge in effortless fun (scrolling through Instagram . . .) It is the effortful fun that makes today different, and makes today land in memory. You don't say "Where did the time go?" when you remember where the time went.

As adults, overall, in two-parent families have spent more time working for pay, the time they spend interacting with their kids has also increased.

I believe that consciously choosing to create such memories will stretch the experience of time.

Exercise doesn't take time, it makes time. Afew years ago, I gave a talk at a rather vast corporate campus. Teams aimed to cluster together, but as you might imagine with a big organization, this did not always happen. One woman told me that she had recently started working with a group located several buildings away. This meant that at least

SECRETS OF PEOPLE WITH ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Tend your garden. Make life memorable. Don't fill time. Linger. Invest in your happiness. Let it go. People are a good use of time.

What do I like about my schedule? What would I like to spend more time doing? What would I like to spend less time doing? How can I make that happen?

We have plenty of time. Averaged over the entire American population, people watch almost as much television as they work. If people don't exercise, it's because they don't want to exercise. Time becomes the scapegoat. Time becomes the scapegoat for all sorts of things, which explains the phrase "If you want something done, ask a busy person.

when it comes to daily life, the time-crunch narrative doesn't tell the whole story. The problem is not that we're all overworked or underrested, it's that most of us have absolutely no idea how we spend our 168 hours.

Doing a lot does not mean you're doing anything important with your 168 hours.

You cannot remove randomness from the universe. You can, however, use your 168 hours to stack the odds in your favor. To do this, you have to place many bets, and leave nothing you can control to chance. In other words, you have to be open to possibilities, and plan for opportunities.

Successful people know that hours, like capital, can be consciously allocated with the goal of creating riches—in the form of a changed world, a life's work—over time. Indeed, successful people understand that work hours must be more carefully stewarded than capital because time is absolutely limited. You can earn more money, but the mightiest among us is granted no more than 168 hours per week, and it is physically impossible to work for all of them.

The truth is that even ten minutes spent looking at the sky with nothing to fill the time can feel long.

Consciously lingering in pleasurable downtime reminds us that we have downtime. And that can make us feel like we have more time than when we let is slip through our hands.

Building a career—and raising a family—are meaningful activities, but they require a lot of energy. To do our best, we need time we can count on to recharge, apart from these obligations. We need time to do things we find intrinsically energizing for ourselves, as individuals.

People who get the most out of life spend as much of their time as possible on these core competency activities, and as little as possible on other things.

given chunk of waking hours. By defining this amount, we start to think of each day as containing a given quantity of temporal space. That time will be filled by something. I maintain that what we fill each day with is largely up to us, based on current

Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we choose to put into it.