968 private quotes tagged time

“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.” — Charles Dickens

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“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.” — Faith Baldwin

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“For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.” — Doug Larson

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“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.” — Francois Rabelais

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“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” — James M. Barrie

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“The best way to fill time is to waste it.” — Marguerite Duras

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“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” — Adam Hochschild

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“Time was God's first creation.” — Walter Lang

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“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.” — Thomas Huxley

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“When in doubt, take more time.” — John Zimmerman

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“What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.” — Philip Zimbardo

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“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.” — Saint Augustine

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“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.” — Augustine of Hippo

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“And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?” — Tillie Olsen

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“Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.” — Groucho Marx

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“Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.” — Mariel Hemingway

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“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Time is the wisest counselor of all.” — Pericles

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“Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.” — Jim Rohn

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“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” — Delmore Schwartz

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“Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” — Alan Lakein

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“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” — M. Scott Peck

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“I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.” — Homer

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“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” — Golda Meir

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