Quotes About Time

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.

I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

You ain't got to wait on a cab no more; just call your Uber, and it pulls up. But waiting isn't an option: that's just a big part of life.

There are a lot of differences between me and Daphne but I think she values family, which I also value, and at a time when women had only one option, she was as determined to make that happen as I am in my career I guess, and I think that was sort of my way into Daphne.

In our careers you don't get the option to say, 'I'm going to take two months off, or go on holiday.' You just don't have that in this lifestyle and it has made us realise we do work non-stop.

Most automakers develop multiple options for a single project. Then they present those options to a committee of executives who decide which one to go with. That takes a lot of time.

When Messi has the ball centrally, with time, he has so many options to hurt you.

Not that I am saying I will never manage again. I want to spend more time with my family and, since we live in Cornwall, that rules out most long-term options.

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

The amount of computation necessary for raytracing, we've known for a long time, is many orders of magnitude more intensive than rasterization.

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.

I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends. You're in a restaurant, and you got there at 8 o'clock. Suddenly, you realize it's midnight. Where did the time go? You're enjoying the conversation. It's sort of a natural, organic conversation.

I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?

People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.