Quotes About Time

Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.

His eyes once did land on a longer piece of writing in which she put down her thoughts about the mystery of time. How one moment flowed into the next and that into the following, and so on, making an endless chain of tiny packets that defined one's existence. How no one could know what any approaching moment might hold. How they whisper by like leaves in a stream or hurtle past with great uproar, each with the prospect of changing the lives of people and nations.

Remember There's No Such Thing As An Unrealistic Goal – Just Unrealistic Time Frames

Because of feedback delays within complex systems, by the time a problem becomes apparent it may be unnecessarily difficult to solve. — A stitch in time saves nine.

It is the consistent behavior pattern over a long period of time that is the first hint of the existence of a feedback loop.

Because we bump into reinforcing loops so often, it is handy to know this shortcut: The time it takes for an exponentially growing stock to double in size, the "doubling time," equals approximately 70 divided by the growth rate (expressed as a percentage). Example: If you put $100 in the bank at 7% interest per year, you will double your money in 10 years (70 ÷ 7 = 10). If you get only 5% interest, your money will take 14 years to double.

We live in an exaggerated present—we pay too much attention to recent experience and too little attention to the past, focusing on current events rather than long-term behavior.

System structure is the source of system behavior. System behavior reveals itself as a series of events over time.

If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.

It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.

Time together is so much more pleasant for the time apart.

Are you reading this, human? I hope so. Becuase here is the truth. I am a werewolf. Quod Hominem, genus gerulfos, Warwoof, wehrwulf, wearul, varulv, garwall, garoul, warou, looup-garou. Lycanthrope. We have been known by many names over the centuries and none of them accurate, for we are neither wolf nor man but a breed apart. We have been with you since before the dawn of time.

When we're not busy being somewhere else, more often than not what we participate with is our past or future version of ourselves and our life. Instead of seeing how things actually are, we continue to see them as they once were or as we imagine they will be.

time acts as an invisible mortar for our experience; it is what stands between potentially discordant elements and, through finding their correct relationship, brings all into a unified whole.

You're just chill all the time. That kind of freaks me out." "It freaks me out that that freaks you out." "So we're just a couple of freaks?" "Seems that way.

I've got a meeting," she went on, not giving him a chance to respond. He nodded to the basket in her arms. "Yes, I can see that. Demanding lot, laundry.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

When it comes to age, it's all about the quality of the preservation,

Of course, thirty would be nice again. I screwed that decade up and could really use a do-over.

Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown

So much of life is made up of questions that we think matter today but are forgotten tomorrow.

Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.