On Time Quotes

To earn the support of grass-roots activists, you have to spend real time, looking them in the eyes, answering their questions. Part of it is also you have to have a message that inspires people.

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

I talk to the universe all the time.

There's never been a better time to be an NBA owner

There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.

The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.

The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.

We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it.

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

I know everyone is busy in life and for them to take out the time to still think about me and send me a card or a letter, that really meant the world to me. I'm grateful for that.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

You only have but so much time to make an impact or people will forget you. My goal always is to make the biggest impact possible.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

I'm focused on this election, I am going full time for Senator Obama. But I never rule anything out. Everyday is a new opportunity. I would like to be Pope if I could.