On Time Quotes

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web.

As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Many times when people leave churches we think it's a doctrinal issue, but most of the time it's a leadership issue.

Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.

I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

There was a time where I was the youngest one in any group, and now when I turn around sometimes, I'm the oldest one in every group. It just seemed to flip-flop one day - it wasn't a gradual thing.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

The unfolding code of what you really are occurs every time you go to sleep.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.