Quotes About Time

I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself. It's true that no one has bothered about how I spend my time for a long while. When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell something: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends.

But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. That gesture, for instance, the red hand picking up the cards and fumbling: it is all flabby. It would have to be ripped apart and tailored inside.

float: they had only one day in which to smooth out their wrinkles, their crow's feet, the bitter lines made by a hard week's work. One day only. They felt the minutes flowing between their fingers; would they have time to store up enough youth to start anew on Monday morning?

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the benefits tomorrow.