Quotes About Time

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

Ritardo ce ne sarà per forza, a causa di intoppi praticamente inevitabili, perché fino a un certo punto è meglio lasciare che ci siano intoppi piuttosto che spendere tempo sul progetto per essere sicuri che non ce ne siano (chissà quanti anni occorrerebbero per questa strada).

I can meet with you again Monday at the same time here in your office, or any morning next week by Skype, or Wednesday and Thursday for lunch—which is best?

When a thing is perfect it is eternal. It can be destroyed afterward, or slowly decay, but its perfection is safe in the past, which is the only inevitable part of the universe.

It is, but we can only help people by giving less than we take away from them. We enlarge the oasis by increasing the desert. That is the science of time and housekeeping. Some call it economics.

I STARTED MAKING MAPS WHEN I WAS SMALL SHOWING PLACE, RESOURCES, WHERE THE ENEMY AND WHERE LOVE LAY. I DID NOT KNOW TIME ADDS TO LAND. EVENTS DRIFT CONTINUALLY DOWN, EFFACING LANDMARKS, RAISING THE LEVEL, LIKE SNOW.

Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.

The first six million years had been all fun and games.