Quotes About Time

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing in prison. When you read, it opens up your mind; it helped us take our minds away from where we were.

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country. Then prisoners' rights became an issue.

I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.

I think what I do for a living is a privilege, so at the very least, I'd like to think it can be a good time.

I already have a job and being the CEO of Nvidia is a great privilege. It is once in a life time opportunity.

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

Building community coalitions with pro-life groups and pro-business groups takes time.

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

You have to edit it, mix it, color grade it, there are processes and the audience doesn't care when they binge-watch a show. They think in four weeks you should get the next season.

I have read that, when you are writing or working on something creative, and your attention wanders, your brain is processing and working on what you have just done. But I find it hard to believe that my brain is really taking five hours to fully process the seven minutes I have managed to spend focused on one thing.

For me genius is '1% inspiration and 99% procrastination.'

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.