Browsing Quotes With Tag: time (47)
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A man who is young in age may still be old and experienced, if he has lost no time.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Edison once was asked how he accomplished so much. He said, ‘It is deceptively simple. You and I have eighteen hours in a day in which we do something. You spend that eighteen hours doing a number of unrelated things. I spend it doing just one thing, and some of my work is bound to amount to something.
Speaker: Sterling W. SillPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What would be the use of eternity to a person who cannot use well one half hour?
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that’s today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.
Speaker: Harold B. LeePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When one learns to master the principles of setting a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can only solve one problem at a time. It’s a law.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it, sleeps the unborn hour,
In darkness, and beyond my power:
Behind its un-returning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands –
The now on which the shadow stands.Speaker: Henry Van DykePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t do anything for fun, I just have fun at what I do. Time is a stewardship and my goal is simply not to waste any.
Speaker: Dallin H. OaksPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Someday, when you know who you really are, you will be sorry that you didn’t use your time better.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The question is not one of managing time, but one of managing ourselves with the time we have. Each minute is a little thing and yet with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Salutation to the Dawn
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.Speaker: KalidasaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know what’s wrong with Laura. What’s wrong with Laura is that I’ll never see her for the first or second or third time again. I’ll never spend two or three days in a sweat trying to remember what she looks like, never again will I get to a pub a half an hour early to meet her, staring at the same article in a magazine and looking at my watch every thirty seconds, never again will thinking about her set something off in me like “Let’s Get It On” sets something off in me.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened—I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Once they knew that some changes were for the better, and others for the worse, and others again indifferent. We have largely removed this knowledge. For the descriptive adjective ‘unchanged’ we have substituted the emotional adjective ‘stagnant.’ We have trained them to think of the future as a promised land which favored heroes attain – not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everything has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see. Sometimes, we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stitch of time reveals its purpose, and a kind of message is enfolded in it. Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And in the tiny, precious wisdom that they give to us, even those dread and hated enemies, suffering and failure, have their reason and their right to be.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of a room also leads us into the past of the room and its ceaselessly unfolding future. People knew that once, deep within the ur-mind, the ur-imagination. You can still find those who decorate doorways, and reverently salute them, in every culture, from Ireland to Japan. I stepped up one, two steps, and reached out with my right hand to touch the doorjamb and then touch my chest, over the heart, in a salaam to fate and a homage to the dead friends and enemies who entered with me.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors – the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn’t do or say. I wish now that from the beginning, even then in the first weeks that I knew her, even on that night, the words had come to tell her… to tell her that I liked her.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discrete shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding, indefatigable, and distant past that had crashed intact, though barriers of time, into its own future. I liked it.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Then learn that mortal man must always look to his ending,
and none can be called happy until that day when he carries
His happiness down to the grave in peace.” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!