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Quotes About Time

I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
~ Jeff Bridges
A career is a job that has gone on too long.
~ Jeff MacNelly
The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.
~ Jeremy Irons
For work, I have to be living in cities, I really cherish the time when I get to be out in the countryside.
~ Jeremy Irvine
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.
~ Jessica Alba
Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.
~ Jodi Picoult
I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.
~ Jodie Foster
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.
~ Stacy Brown-Philpot
In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.
~ Desiree Rogers
You can gain a lot of time from an aggressive strategy, but you can lose a lot of time from an aggressive strategy.
~ Romain Grosjean
In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
I'm no apologist for Russia or the Assad regime, but actually, this has been staring us in the face for a number of years now, and I think it's time to turn a page and accept reality. Our strategy - if that is the right word - failed miserably, and Russia's with Iran has been successful.
~ Jeremy Hunt
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
~ William Shatner
The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
When I'm not streaming, I have time to reflect on all the growth, and I don't like that. I'd rather just be home playing. I'm like, 'I haven't played a celebrity in a while. I haven't done something big in a while. Is it because I'm slowing down?'
~ Ninja
I think that with these streaming shows, sometimes it takes a little time for everybody to - because they know they have time, you know it's up there - you'll get to it when you get to it. It sort of like, 'Oh, it's on my list.'
~ Amy Landecker
My pantry pastas fall somewhere in the middle of the time spectrum. They're simple, streamlined, and flexible, with unfussy yet massively flavorful sauces that come together in the time it takes to boil water and cook pasta.
~ Chris Morocco
People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.
~ Marco Arment
I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.
~ Debra Stephenson
The interviews have gotten much longer with 'Humans of New York.' When I was first starting, I was just photographing people. And then I went to just kind of including a quote or two. Now when I'm approaching somebody on the street, I'm spending about 30 to 45 minutes with them often.
~ Brandon Stanton
I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.
~ Julian Castro
Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.
~ Stephen Hough