Quotes About Time

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Life's too short for doubt, and yet too long for faith.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

Your happiness is affected by 1) your outlook, that is, how you choose to view the events and circumstances of your everyday life; 2) specific actions with positive impact—things like writing down three things your grateful for, or sending appreciative emails, doing random acts of kindness, practicing forgiveness, meditating, and exercising; and 3) where you put your time and energy, and especially investing more time into important relationships and personally meaningful pursuits.

take care with what you think. Because what you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.

One last thing about past and future—and I have saved the best for last. You can't change the past. You can change the future. Would you rather be influenced by something you can't change, or by something you can?

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

The slight edge can carve the Grand Canyon. It can do anything. But you have to give it enough time for the power of time to kick in. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you. Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death

Because time will either promote you or expose you.

That's the choice you face every day, every hour: A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do.

About having faith in the process of simple, positive actions repeated over time—the faith that miracles do happen, if you know when to trust the process and keep churning the cream.

No success is immediate, no collapse is sudden. They are both the result of the slight edge accruing momentum over time.

There's always more to build than we have time or resources to build — always.

And, of course, as savvy readers can appreciate, when software developers say it's going to take a year to get something done, they really mean two years. It's not because they're incompetent, or that they are calendar-challenged, it's just that estimating the time to do something we've never done before is something we suck at. And, by nature, we're often optimistic animals.

As the months passed, even the strident voices from the newspapers had begun to moderate, and the passion to put Preston's neck in a noose had become subdued. It was a relief to Adams that with the trial now scheduled for October, he had time to work with Josiah Quincy to prepare a case based on law and reason. And it meant he could spend time with his family and enjoy the wonderful peace of the farm.

care about right now is how long this is

Long gone are the days when automobiles expanded possibility and choice for the majority of Americans. Now, thanks to its ever-increasing demands for space, speed, and time, the car has reshaped our landscape and lifestyles around its own needs. It is an instrument of freedom that has enslaved us.

the faster a society moves, the more it spreads out and the more time it must spend moving.

Okay, obviously I didn't die or I wouldn't be able to relate this tender little narrative. Unless, of course, I'm a ghost, writing these words through an Ouija board. That would be pretty cool, but also incredibly time consuming, and the human I was channeling through would probably try to steal all the credit.

They showed up right after you got there?" I asked. "Well, no, Erik and I smoked some weed first. I guess we were there for an hour or so." "Maybe an hour and a half," said Erik. "That long?" "It was good weed.

Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.

I was alive, and from past experience I knew in time I would forget enough to again pretend that we could someday be free.

There was no moment like any other moment and yet each moment was the same.