Quotes About Time

The environment we operate in may be different, but the brain is essentially the same, and its power to learn, adapt, and master time is universal.

Those who make assumptions from far away, based on universal theories, do not see the whole picture. It takes great time and effort to see the differences, to participate in a culture. And because it is much harder to percieve these differences, culture has not been given its due as one of the primary shaping forces for language and for how we experience the world.

En la vida diaria todo es prisa e improvisación, y tú debes ofrecer algo diferente. Si te tomas tu tiempo y respetas el proceso de la seducción, no sólo quebrarás la resistencia de tu víctima, sino que también la enamorarás.

the moment when you stop has great dramatic import. What comes last sticks in the mind as a kind of exclamation point. There is no better time to stop and walk away than after a victory.... As lawyers say of cross-examination, Always stop with a victory.

To accomplish this you must always be vigilant and ruthless, keeping your creation quiet until you can be sure there are no vultures circling overhead. Second, learn to take advantage of other people's work to further your own cause. Time is precious and life is short. If you try to do it all on your own, you run yourself ragged, waste energy, and burn yourself out. It is far better to conserve your forces, pounce on the work others have done, and find a way to make it your own.

and even if we live for another eighty years, it is but a drop in the ocean of the vastness of time, and it passes always more quickly than we imagine.

Perspective comes with time.

Los individuos con mucho tiempo en sus manos son extremadamente susceptibles a la seducción.

So it is important to judge over time whether a person is rational or irrational. Can they sustain success and hit upon several good strategies? Can they adjust and learn from failures?

Understand this: In the game of power, the people you associate with are critical. The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself. Through a kind of guilt by association, you will also suffer in the eyes of others. Never underestimate the dangers of infection.

Time is an artificial concept that we ourselves have created to make the limitlessness of eternity and the universe more bearable, more human.

When we unconsciously disconnect ourselves from the awareness of death, we forge a rather loose relationship with time. We image that we have more time than is reality. Our minds drift to the future, where all our hopes and wishes will be fulfilled.

Our relationship to time is more malleable than we think. Although we cannot stop the aging process or defy the ultimate reality of death, we can alter the experience of them, transforming what is painful and depressing into something much different. We can make time feel more cyclical than linear; we can even step outside the stream and experience forms of timelessness. We do not have to remain locked in the hold of our generation and its perspective.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus." ? Robert Greene, Mastery I love it because it is true :)

The Laws of Human Nature, 17: Seize the Historical Moment—The Law of Generational Myopia

You must alter your attitude toward your own generation. We like to imagine that we are autonomous and that our values and ideas come from within, not without, but this is in fact not the case. Your goal is to understand as deeply as possible how profoundly the spirit of your generation, and the times that you live in, have influenced how you perceive the world.

The human mind naturally freezes the relentless passage of time by presenting us with static images of people, our culture, and our own self-identity. But if we were truly sensitive to evolution, we would realize these are only passing shadows in a world of ceaseless flux.

Every minute of every day we are aging; every encounter with others alters and shapes our ideas; we are a continuous work in progress, never quite the same. As Heraclitus once said, "You cannot step into the same river twice; it is not the same river, and you are not the same person.

patience is a skill—it does not come naturally.

patience is the supreme virtue of the gods, who have nothing but time.

Let us look at the pedestrians in any busy city and realize that in ninety years it is likely that none of them will be alive, including us. Think of the millions and billions who have already come and gone, buried and long forgotten, rich and poor alike.

Remember: You have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the affairs of others subtracts from your strength.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. —Aristotle

El poder tiene más relación con lo divino que con el mundo natural. Y la paciencia es la virtud suprema de los dioses, que disponen de todo el tiempo del mundo.