Quotes About Time

Running a business murders your ability to be the kind of friend people expect or deserve. Days and weeks go by and there can be no keeping up. Her best friends were her oldest friends, who did not expect constant contact. Everyone else was disappointed.

write the past in disappearing ink

A few years ago" has a comfortable distance. The blood is dry, the scabs hardened, peeled. Early on was different.

We thought we young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

And everything that seemed possible at twenty-four, twenty-five, is now just such a joke, such a ridiculous fiction, every birthday an atrocity

In the changing of the times," Abe wrote to one of his students, "they were like autumn lightning, a thing out of season, an empty promise of rain that would fall unheeded on fields already bare.

Necross: The wound! It will prove fatal -- but -- I am not worried! Cerebus: Really? Why not? Necross: Because that means I'll be dead in a few minutes . . . OOPS . . . better make that a few . . . seconds . . .

Thus apocalypses set an audience's space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience's time in the context of a sacred history of God's activity and carefully defined plan.

There are no interruptions, really—there are simply mismanaged occurrences.

When time itself turned into a work factor, personal calendars became a key work tool.

contexto, tiempo disponible, energía disponible y prioridad.

Trying to keep a list on the calendar, which must then be reentered on another day if items don't get done, is demoralizing and a waste of time.

Similarly, when you are away at a conference, an off-site meeting, or on vacation, you need to expect that it will require one hour to get caught up for each day you are out of the office!

Think carefully about where and when and under what circumstances you can do which actions, and organize your lists accordingly.

have discovered that one of the major reasons many people haven't had a lot of success with getting organized is simply that they have tried to do all five steps at one time.

you don't manage priorities—you have them.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

There are only so many hours per day, even as we push back the frontiers of sleeplessness. There are only so many people with whom we can maintain serious connections

The traditional approaches to time management and personal organization were useful in their time. They provided helpful reference points for a workforce that was just emerging from an industrial assembly-line modality into a new kind of work that included choices about what to do and discretion about when to do it.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. —CHARLES DARWIN

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —SUSAN ERTZ

There are no interruptions—there are only mismanaged inputs.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. —Anonymous