On Time Quotes
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.
For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.
A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.
I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.
The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.
Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.
Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.
I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!
You never get another first time. I just remember being excited and that feeling of "Wow my dream is really coming true".
I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.
So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.
I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.
Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe.
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.
The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.
You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.
My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.
Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.
You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news.
I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.