Quotes About Time

As president, he lectured a young relative about to enter college that "every hour misspent is lost forever" and that "future years cannot compensate for lost days at this period of your life.

The time had come to streamline operations, impose guidance, and attain new efficiencies.

There certainly are some drawbacks to belonging to a busy man no matter how fine he may be as I believe you have sometimes found out.48

Junior waited more than a year to depart from the company.

At the time, Lawson noted, Standard Oil was considered "the greatest power in the land," and its supposed involvement had stimulated a buying mania.60

in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Such a time never came.

The Clarks were the first of many business partners to underrate the audacity of the quietly calculating Rockefeller, who bided his time as he figured out how to get rid of them.

He seemed to age a generation.

it was a more auspicious time for an American banker than it had been when Peabody

His life was a case study in the profitable use of time.

it was a more auspicious time for an American banker than it had been when Peabody was flogging the hated Maryland bonds in the 1830s.

Then, overnight, the alopecia seemed to equalize their ages.

Extremely punctual for all appointments, he said, "A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily.

There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time!

see also positrons; virtual particles Aristotle, 172–73 Atkins, Peter, 191 baryons, 76 Big Bang, xvii, 95, 107, 150, 173, 189 CMBR left from, see cosmic microwave background radiation dating of, 3, 15–16, 77, 87 density of protons and neutrons in

Special relativity says nothing can travel through space faster than the speed of light. But space itself can do whatever the heck it wants, at least in general relativity. And as space expands, it can carry distant objects, which are at rest in the space where they are sitting

the universe could have expanded during this inflationary period by a factor of more than 1028. While this is an incredible amount, it amazingly could have happened in a fraction of a second in the very early universe.

We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

This makes it sound as if light has intentionality, and I resisted the temptation to say light considers all paths and chooses the one that takes the least time because I fully expect that Deepak Chopra would later quote me as implying that light has consciousness.

one's universe would appear very different from the vast bulk of space around it, which would still be inflating. In this picture, inflation is eternal. Some regions, indeed most of space, will go on inflating forever.

he realized that he could get an approximate answer that was "good enough" in a short time