Little Time Quotes - Page 11

• I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

  Bernie Taupin

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Time, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

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• If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Perfect, Execution, Toilets

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• A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Long, Despair

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.203

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