Quotes About Time

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

The young donÂ't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

I Love the one who you are in the Past .Not the one who you are in the Present.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.