Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marcus Aurelius

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius

Live each day as if it be your last.

Marcus Aurelius

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

Marcus Aurelius

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Marcus Aurelius

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

Marcus Aurelius

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Marcus Aurelius

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Marcus Aurelius

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Marcus Aurelius

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marc Chagall

Time is a river without banks.

Thomas A. Edison

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas A. Edison

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.