Favorite Quotations ~ Time

Square watercolor of flowing light and shifting colors suggesting the passage of time Time is elastic, mysterious, and deeply personal. It shapes our days and reveals our truths, as Henry Ford observed in his own way: Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone. ~ Ben Affleck

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. ~ Fred Brooks

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune. ~ John Lee Hooker

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees. ~ Eric Clapton

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide. ~ Lou Holtz

Unpunctuality is a vile habit. ~ Winston Churchill

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. ~ Thomas Carlyle

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. ~ Marshall McLuhan

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time. ~ Conrad Hilton

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us. ~ Martha Graham

We haven't the time to take out time. ~ Eugene Ionesco

We all find time to do what we really want to do. ~ William Feather

There is no past, present, or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. ~ Janet Frame

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~ Steve Jobs

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. ~ Virginia Woolf

Time discovers truth. ~ Seneca

Truth and morning become light with time. ~ Ethiopian Proverb