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Time Quotes - Page 53

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

Rita Dove (1989). “The Yellow House on the Corner: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

"Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

"Resolving social conflicts; selected papers on group dynamics" edited by Gertrude W. Lewin New York: Harper & Row, 1948, p. 133; as cited in "Schooling & Capitalism: A Sociological Reader" by Roger Dale, Madeleine MacDonald, Geoff Esland, (p. 111), 1976.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

Source: www.nydailynews.com

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.39, World Wisdom, Inc

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

"Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

"William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.