Quotes About Time

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.