Quotes About Time

I've always been a big believer in diversification for anybody. It's never good to put all of your efforts and all of your time and all of your financial resources into just one project. Diversification is key for any individual and any business.

I never really set any time goals. I think that puts a limit on yourself.

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.

There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.

To be in this business and be a star, not just be on the card, to be a star puts a demand on your time.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Reviewing good puzzle books is frustrating, because you get to page one of the introduction, find a curious puzzle, become engrossed for 20 minutes, miss your stop and then fail to get home in time to say goodnight to the kids.

It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.

I was just one piece of the puzzle, a very small piece at that. I really enjoyed my time with the Knicks, and we had a great run.

Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.

I like to have Ric Flair in the ring one more time in the MMA or the UFC. I'd like to beat the hell out of him.

It's not easy to tell a life story in two-and-a-half hours flat.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time to read a book, watch movies, and think about new dishes.

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

I was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey.

You only get so many flight hours. It's not a whole lot of time, so it really just comes down to maximizing it while you can.