Time Quotes - Page 74

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Life is about having a good time.

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.