Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Sean M. Carroll

The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

Shoshana Zuboff

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

Shunryu Suzuki

So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

Shelby Foote

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Shannon Lucid

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

Seth

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

Lewis Mumford

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

Leonard Maltin

Timing in life is everything.

Laura Nyro

Nothing cures like time and love ...

Kurt Lewin

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

Neil Postman

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.

Neil Postman

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more Malinowski the more compelling the book. No Malinowski, and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.

Stephen Covey

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Stephen Covey

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

Vanna Bonta

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

Vanna Bonta

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

Vanna Bonta

Patience is being friends with Time.

Vanna Bonta

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Vanna Bonta

Always is no Time at all.

Vanna Bonta

We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.

Vanna Bonta

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.

Sophocles

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Sophocles

Time is a kindly God.

Sophocles

Great Time makes all things dim.

Sophocles

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Stephen King

Time is a face on the water.

Stephanie Zimbalist

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Stephanie Zimbalist

I enjoy my time alone.

Sophie Swetchine

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.

Soren Kierkegaard

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Soren Kierkegaard

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.