Time Quotes

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

By all means use some time to be alone.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.