“Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.”
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“Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.”
“Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
“If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'”
“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.”
“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”
“There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.”
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.”
“You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.”
“On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.”
“A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.”
“I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.”
“I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.”
“Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.”
“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.”
“Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.”
“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”
“Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.”
“My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.”
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
“How time files when you's doin' all the talking.”