Quotes About Time

In an effort to value and structure time, some of us unintentionally may be killing dreamtime.

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

Television remains the most effective thief of time.

whatever shape nature takes, it offers each child an older, larger world separate from parents. Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive. Alive in the larger universe, alive in time.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

How long did it take for a past to die?

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

You can spend your money and spend your time. At the end of the day, you can look in your wallet and know how much money you have left. That's the difference between money and time.

Remember that application development is not a beauty contest, so stop looking for flaws and wasting time chasing perfection.

Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto», dice Ben Johnson con un tono tan satisfecho como triste. «Yo era capaz de hacer lo mismo que hace hoy en día Usain Bolt. La velocidad a la que él es capaz de correr en estas pistas tan rápidas de hoy en día es la misma a la que podría haber corrido yo». Y lo repite, «Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto. ¡Cincuenta años!». Lanza una carcajada, la misma que lanzaría ante una broma pesada.

when our minds are unconsciously in the future, the present disappears; it is simply not available to us. We substitute heading toward our lives for actually living.

The Now is not an ultimate state to be realized but rather a continuum to be lived.

That is, you can't get outside the present to make it an object of thought.

If you can't stop time, make it vanish.

Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we had more time...If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower.

Across thirty-two cities worldwide, people in 2006 were walking an average 10 percent faster than they were in 1994.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

And yet the time saved did not seem to mean additional leisure or greater opportunities for meditation and reflection. Instead, with each new wave of technology, the pace of life increased; there was more to do, more choices to make, more things to experience, and people eagerly seized upon those experiences and filled the hours that had only moments ago become empty.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

They say that time heals all wounds. But even as wounds heal they leave scars, token reminders of the pain.