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Quotes About Time

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
~ George Eliot
No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.
~ George Matthew Adams
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
~ George R. R. Martin
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.
~ George Sand
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
~ Gloria Steinem
I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
~ Harold Ramis
With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with!
~ Unknown
You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.
~ Hector Elizondo
There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.
~ Henri Nouwen
There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
~ Hesiod
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.
~ Howard Hodgkin
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
~ Iain Banks
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
~ Isaac Watts
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I'm a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.
~ Jack LaLanne
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
~ Jacob Lew
Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
~ James Gunn
When you are living your dreams it doesn't feel like work, but it's important to take some time away for yourself. It's goot to make some time for your own company.
~ Jared Leto