Quotes About Time

A permanent present—what a haunting phrase.

Later! What an astonishing idea. What a powerful concept. What a fabulous discovery.

This frontal lobe—the last part of the human brain to evolve, the slowest to mature, and the first to deteriorate in old age—is a time machine that allows each of us to vacate the present and experience the future before it happens.

the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.

At some point between our high chairs and our rocking chairs, we learn about later.

Unfortunately, even big ideas leave no fossils for carbon dating

not thinking about the future is much more challenging than being a psychology professor.

but of all the things you might do in your final ten minutes, it's a pretty safe bet that few of them are things you actually did today.

Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.

several months had elapsed and it would

One day you will die, but death is not your enemy and it only makes you to appreciate life's gifts more with each passing second.

that's not how wounds heal. They don't obey our wishes. Healing takes place in its own way and in its own time.

E-mail response time is the single best predictor of whether employees are satisfied with their boss, according to research by Duncan Watts, a Columbia University sociologist who is now a principal researcher for Microsoft Research. The longer it takes for a boss to respond to their e-mails, the less satisfied people are with their leader.1

Temporal landmarks slow our thinking, allowing us to deliberate at a higher level and make better decisions

If you're an educator, know that all times are not created equal:

autonomy over four aspects of work: what people do, when they do it, how they do it, and whom they do it with. As Atlassian's experience shows, Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T's: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.

In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. "No matter what kind of business you're in, it's time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks, and outdated industrial-age thinking.

The second way to self-distance is through time. We can enlist the same capacity for time travel that gives birth to regret to analyze and strategize about learning from these regrets.

The Regret Optimization Framework holds that we should devote time and effort to anticipate the four core regrets: foundation regrets, boldness regrets, moral regrets, and connection regrets. But anticipating regrets outside these four categories is usually not worthwhile

E-mail response time is the single best predictor of whether employees are satisfied with their boss

much of what we assume are "natural" units of time are really fences our ancestors constructed in order to corral time. Seconds, hours, and weeks are all human inventions.

If you happen to appear before a parole board just before a break rather than just after one, you'll likely spend a few more years in jail—not because of the facts of the case but because of the time of day.

In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. We need to flip that model

Instead, they spent considerable time accomplishing almost nothing—until they experienced a surge of activity that always came at "the temporal midpoint" of a project.14