Quotes About Time

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.

I really tried to take advantage of my 15 minutes of fame. And I've gotten lucky - those 15 minutes have become several years.

I've got to take advantage of every day.

I have to work and give everything and when I'm given minutes I have to take advantage of them, as I have always done.

You have to take care of the seconds. The minutes, the hours, and the days will take care of themselves.

People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families.

There is no way to physically always be there for your children and always be at the office and always be present for your significant other and then take care of yourself. The laws of physics necessitate that somebody or some thing is going to get the short end of the stick.

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.

Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Customers want to buy something which is not expensive because of a label but which is costly because of the time taken to produce it.

I've definitely done things to change my behaviour. There are certain things you can't do when you get to a certain level in what you do. When it gets to a certain time, you're a story to somebody. It is something I have taken on board.

I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

To build a friendship takes so much time and so many years. To ruin it, just seconds.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.