Quotes About Time

what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions…. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection.

Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long time spans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

The concept of "work hours" is vanishing for most people—so this thing that 87 percent of us don't enjoy is spreading over more and more of our lives.

I would start once again to have strong recurring thoughts that said: life is pointless; everything you're doing is pointless; this whole thing is a fucking waste of time. It would be a thrum of unending anxiety.

A childhood is made up of small moments of connection between a child and their parent. If you miss them, you don't ever get them back.

A study by Professor Michael Posner at the University of Oregon found that if you are focusing on something and you get interrupted, on average it will take twenty-three minutes for you to get back to the same state of focus. A different study of office workers in the U.S. found most of them never get an hour of uninterrupted work in a typical day. If this goes on for months and years, it scrambles your ability to figure out who you are and what you want. You become lost in your own life.

Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth.

2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

What we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions … Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth. Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long timespans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.

I più trascorrono la maggior parte del tempo lavorando per vivere, e quel po' di libertà che rimane loro li spaventa a tal punto che ricorrono a ogni mezzo per liberarsene. Oh destino degli uomini!

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.

Age does not make us childish, as they say.It only finds us true children still.

Every second is of infinite value.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.