Time Management Quotes - Page 12

• Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

  Herbert Spencer

  Time, Men, Always Trying

  "The Dictionary of Essential Quotations" by Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, (p. 154), 1983.

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• If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.

  Stephen Covey

  Morning, Jobs, Reading

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• There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

  James A. Baldwin

  Time, Future, Blessing

  "James Baldwin: 10 insightful quotes on his birthday" by Elizabeth Drake, www.csmonitor.com. August 02, 2012.

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• You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.

  Al Koran

  Want, Making Time, Enough

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• The way you think you spend your time and the way you actually spend your time are rarely the same.

  Douglas Merrill

  Thinking, Way, Management

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• Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.

  Douglas Merrill

  Waste, Management, Life Time

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• Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

  Guy Finley

  Worry, Needs, May

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 13, 2014

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• Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.

  Douglas Merrill

  Issues, Way, Life Time

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• We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.

  Sam Huff

  Management, Hours

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• Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

  Robin Sharma

  Exercise, Complaining, Why Not

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.64, Jaico Publishing House

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• If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

  John Cage

  Work, Enough Time, Accomplish

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• Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

  Plato

  Moving, Management, Eternity

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• Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Wisdom, Time, Power

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• Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Hours

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 146

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• The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

  Edmund Husserl

  Perception, Duration, Management

  Edmund Husserl (2008). “Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  World, Evolution, Life Is

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Littles, Management

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

  J. G. Ballard

  Time, Greatest Movie, Events

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• We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

  Max Lerner

  Running, Time, Men

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Life, Waste, Wasting Time

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• How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

  Dada Vaswani

  Long, Waiting, Right Time

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• Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

  Douglas Merrill

  People, Focus, Use

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• The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Giving, Dinner

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• Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!!
  You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Thinking, Average, Add

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• Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

  Stephen Covey

  Learning, Priorities, Substitutes

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

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