Quotes About Time

There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do.

I'm very organized. I have my day-to-day schedule, every 15 minutes, written out.

I'm very controlling. It's my worst habit. I'm also over organized, which means I end up telling my family what I want them to do at certain times, like when to get up, where to put their clothes and when they should have their breakfast.

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way to tell it in two and a half hours.

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.

I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

When it comes to people I love and care about, I may condense the time, but I'm giving them every ounce of my energy. When it comes to creation, I block create and block focus on business.

I have a short time to play this game. I'm trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

The memories we make with our family is everything.

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

Our lives are really hectic, and I think that's challenging.

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.