On Time Quotes

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.

We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private.

If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him. "For time to stop. "Why?" He shrugs. "Cause I could live forever at this moment.

I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Renunciation is submission to time.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the only option.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

I don't really have the time or energy to be bad.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, Please...they got problems of their own.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].