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Quotes About Time

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time
~ Walt Whitman
Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
~ Will Rogers
I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
~ Willa Cather
This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
~ William Gibson
I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
~ William H. Macy
Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
~ William H. Macy
Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.
~ William J. Clinton
I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.
~ William Monahan
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.
~ William Morris Hunt
My work has always been the product of my time.
~ William Saroyan
I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
~ Winona Ryder
At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.
~ Yoko Ono
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.
~ Yuriy Tarnawsky
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
~ Zooey Deschanel
When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
~ Coco Chanel
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
~ Henry Ford
I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.
~ Charles Bukowski, Factotum
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
~ Robert Frost
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
~ Robert Frost
If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
~ Elbert Hubbard