Quotes About Time

I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

I've honed in on three questions that I ask myself when I'm evaluating where to spend my time. Is this something that I'm passionate about, is it purposeful, and will I have impact? And if I can't answer 'yes' to all three questions, then I have to sit back and ask, 'Is it really that important?'

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Music was something I had put aside to make movies. Somehow I earlier felt there was only so much creative energy allotted to your life and only that much time to pursue your creativity. But I was wrong.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

If you pursued every rumour in Formula One, you'd hardly have time for anything else.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let's face it. And any little bit - you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it.

I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it.

I used to do push-ups every morning from 6:00 to 8:00.

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.

With the national team, you never know how long you've got, so you always have to be pushing and making the most of it.

It became apparent to me near the end of the album cycle for 'House Of Gold & Bones' that it had basically run its course. But the band kept pushing for more dates, and I was just, like, 'It's time to stop!'