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Quotes About Time

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
~ Sam Ewing
It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
~ Valentino Rossi
Being busy does not always mean real work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.
~ Townes Van Zandt
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
~ George Orwell
It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
~ L. S. Lowry
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
~ Elise M. Boulding
Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.
~ Kemmons Wilson
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
~ Oswald Chambers
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!
~ Gary Gygax
I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.
~ Channing Tatum
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~ Peter Marshall
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends & have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued.
~ Brian Dyson
If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
~ Charles Babbage
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
~ Mos Def
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window
~ Delia Smith
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
~ Anna Freud
See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success
~ Bill Gates
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
~ Tom DeMarco
Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
~ Merle Haggard