Time Keeping Quotes

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• 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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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

  Joe Rogan

  Workout, People, Together

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• Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't try to be this super perfect person, but has respect for his history and for his ancestors and for spirituality. So Nas always displayed that in his music, while at the same time keeping it hard and something that you can relate to.

  Damian Marley

  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

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• Films allow you more preparation time, keeping the higher budgets in mind. Television makes you work really fast, but maintain certain standards. Then it's up to me to seek out the best of both worlds.

  Indraneel Bhattacharya

  Mind, Preparation, Television

  Source: www.ibtimes.co.in

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• It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Turns, Astrophysics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hard Times, Community, Solitude

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Smart, Mma, Going Out

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• I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

  Kenny Wormald

  Believe, Thinking, Hard Times

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• I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

  Martha Plimpton

  Character, Giving, Consistency

  "'Raising Hope's' Martha Plimpton on Her Emmy Nomination, 'I Was Doubly Surprised'". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Regret, Drinking, Hangover

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1987). “Joanna's Husband and David's Wife”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

  Seth

  Promise, Needs, More Time

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• Video marketing is the most effective way for you to get someone's attention and engage them for a substantial period of time. Keeping someone engaged is the best and quickest way to gain their trust. Gaining trust is the only way to convert your audience into happy, long-term clients/customers/subscribers.

  David Grimes

  Long, Marketing, Video

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• The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Hard Times, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.

  Frederick Seitz

  Religious, Technology, Land

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

  Christine Quinn

  Tired, Schedules, Too Much

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• We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

  Janet E. Smith

  Attitude, Abortion, Catholic

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• I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jobs, Busy, Living My Life

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Tough Times, Weight

  Interview with Patrick Mauro, www.ign.com. July, 2005.

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• I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Past, Hard Times, Hands

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

  Courteney Cox

  Hard Times, Pregnant, Hard

  "Courteney Cox Has Baby Girl". www.foxnews.com. June 14, 2004.

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• Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

  Joan Collins

  Thinking, Skins, Poison

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