968 private quotes tagged time

“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.” — Bill Gates

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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.” — Karl Marx

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee

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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“I spend a lot of time reading.” — Bill Gates

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“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.” — Victor Hugo

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“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” — Voltaire

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“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” — Mark Twain

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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” — Albert Einstein

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“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” — Louisa May Alcott

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“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.” — Walt Disney

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“Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.” — David Letterman

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