Time Quotes - Page 111

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.