Quotes About Time

Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second

Our engagement cycle is a designed process that helps us to deliver the most relevant content to the most relevant persona at the most relevant time.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s'pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain't a boy any longer.

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

Life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time, the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.

Make the most of your yard of space and your inch of time.

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left Los Angeles International at 10:10 A.M. Los Angeles time. Who says time-reversal is hard to accomplish?

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

It's like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you're in a hurry to get the day over with so you can start the next one. You tell yourself you're going to do lots of positive things. But the next day is just like the one before. Sometimes it goes on for weeks.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

"In the days of my youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age."

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

There are a few much older states in existence, particularly ancient empires and their successor states such as China or Iran.

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

When peace returned, the Janus was closed; this happened only ten times in more than a thousand years.