βThere's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.β
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Attitude & Values Β· 27 authors
Quotes on the preciousness of time and how we spend it. A reminder to consider how we use our fleeting hours.
βThere's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.β
β George Carlin
βThere's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.β
βEnemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.β
βOnly Homo sapiens knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.β
βThe trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.β
βEarly ripe, early rotten.β
βTime is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.β
βTime is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.β
βArt is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.β
βTime alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.β
βArchitecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.β
βEmploy thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.β
βDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.β
βYou may delay, but time will not.β
βEarly morning hath gold in its mouth.β
βWhen you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.β
βPeople like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.β
βTime you enjoy wasting was not wasted.β
βWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.β
βIf you do not study hard in youth, you will regret it in old age.β
βTime is what we desire most when we lack it, yet use most poorly when we have it.β
βThink of each day as your last.β
βThere is a thief that works day and night. This thief steals the most precious thing from people β and that is time.β
βThe time for action is now. It is never too late to do something.β
βYou cannot buy time with anything. If you need time, you must make time.β
βDo not count time by the calendar, but by your feelings. Then every moment becomes a day.β
βTake care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.β
βDon't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Einstein.β
βLife does not issue round-trip tickets. Once you depart, you can never return.β
βNever put off till tomorrow what you can do today.β
βThe wisest are the most saddened by the waste of time.β
βNo one knows how much time we have. That's why we must live in the moment.β