Quotes About Time

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.

Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.