Quotes About Time

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

Patience is also a form of action.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

Working gets in the way of living.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.