Quotes About Time

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

Success doesn't happen overnight.

You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Box office success is pertinent but the story has to have a life beyond the two hours.

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

Consumers value their personal time and are loyal to those companies that make their lives more productive. Brands gaining some of the biggest successes in social media are engaging with millions of consumers through value exchange.

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

We all have to believe in something in order to exist successfully in this world and to enjoy our time here, which is short. I know that.

I found out I got 'The Little Drummer Girl' and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn't expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It's been an overwhelming experience.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

There is so much of politics in sport that I sometimes wonder how did I survive for such a long time.

Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don't?

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.