When I give a lecture I accept that people look at their watches but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away But which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction from the life of a man.
Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller Pasteur Michaelangelo Mother Teresa Leonardo da Vinci Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.
May we never let the things we cant have or dont have or shouldnt have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it.
One of the best lessons that anyone can learn in life is how to use time wisely. Consider what can be done in ten minutes. If you need a little mental relaxation you can sit down with a friend and play a game of cards. If you need some physical recreation you can engage in a few exercises that will help tone up your body. Perhaps you have a friend who for weeks or months has been looking for a letter. Then there may be among your acquaintances someone whose friendship you would value highly and whose counsel would be profitable. Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do we have no time for anything else we are the busiest people in the world.
Ive had a wonderful time but this wasnt it.
We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Three oclock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
When I give a lecture I accept that people look at their watches but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
At the end of about a week I called back and said I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
You cant turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
About the time we can make the ends meet somebody moves the ends.
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.
The passing minute is every mans equal possession but what has once gone by is no longer ours.
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Lifes enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Time destroys the speculations of man But it confirms the judgment of nature.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away But which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction from the life of a man.
Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go.
The passing day is prey to error. Time commands success and achievement
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is you are too paralyzed to do anything.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Nothing can be born of nothing nothing can be resolved into nothing.
Like the dew on the mountain Like the foam on the river Like the bubble on the fountain Thou art gone and forever!
Come what come may Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight!
To choose time is to save time.
We never shall have any more time we have and we have always had all the time there is.
CLOCK n. A machine of great moral value to man allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
I can do only one thing at a time but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller Pasteur Michaelangelo Mother Teresa Leonardo da Vinci Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no y in it.
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
We barely have time to react in this world let alone rehearse.
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.’08-02-2010
This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
May we never let the things we cant have or dont have or shouldnt have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it.
The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau filling up the small spaces with small things.
Life is made up of constant calls to action and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
You cannot step twice into the same stream. For as you are stepping in other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Old Times is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
One of the best lessons that anyone can learn in life is how to use time wisely. Consider what can be done in ten minutes. If you need a little mental relaxation you can sit down with a friend and play a game of cards. If you need some physical recreation you can engage in a few exercises that will help tone up your body. Perhaps you have a friend who for weeks or months has been looking for a letter. Then there may be among your acquaintances someone whose friendship you would value highly and whose counsel would be profitable. Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do we have no time for anything else we are the busiest people in the world.