Clock Quotes

• Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

  Sam Levenson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• Only when the clock stops does time come to life

  William Faulkner

  Time, Doe, Fleeting Time

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Time can tick when there is no clock.

  Anne Rice

  Tick

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.269, Random House

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• I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Simple Life, Small Villages

  "The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Gratitude, Grateful, Watches

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• The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Differences, Ordinary, Watches

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• I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Time, Cutting, Hands

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• Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Leader, Roger

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• A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Understanding, Alarms

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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• Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheer Up

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• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Time, Mean, Men

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.37, Grove Press

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• And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Time, Blessed, Heart

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• With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Children, Forget, Reset

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  World, Reason, Lost

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.153, Macmillan

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• One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

  James Gleick

  Change, Time, Understanding

  "5 Big Moments in the History of Knowledge Transfer" by Jason Gots, bigthink.com.

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• The world is a clock winding down.

  Rick Yancey

  World, Winding Down

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.391, Penguin

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  Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

  Michael Ende

  Calendars, Littles, Eternity

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• What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Years, Fool

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2013

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• You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

  Drew Houston

  Want, Great Men, Figures

  "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Moving, Two, Hands

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Motivational, Being Yourself

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• Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

  James Cash Penney

  Time Management, Good Times, Economy

  James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”

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• Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

  Hermann Bondi

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