Timeliness Quotes

• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Challenges, Wonder, You Like It

  "Become What You Are". Interview with John Loudon, gratefulness.org. 1982.

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• Timeliness is best in all matters.

  Hesiod

  Inspirational, Matter

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.101, University of Michigan Press

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• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Time, Memories, Butterfly

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

  Rose Kennedy

  Memories, Inspirational Life, Matter

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

  John Cleese

  Preparation, Alternatives, Moments

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• What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Ego, Lines

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• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Confused, Innovation, Too Late

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• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  Paul Harvey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.361, Рипол Классик

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• Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Ideas, Profound, Timely

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  There is nothing permanent except change.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

  Sophocles

  Time, Memories, Waiting

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• Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

  Gail Godwin

  Time, Memories, Forever

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• The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

  James A. Baldwin

  Time, Memories, Future

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• You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

  Harvey Mackay

  Real, Believe, Eye

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

  Franz Marc

  Artist, Past, Age

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• timeliness is an enemy to art.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Art, Enemy

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• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Views, World, Matter

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

  Burton Silverman

  People, Painting, Moments

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• I hate artists who are not of their time.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Hate, Artist, I Hate

  Guillaume Apollinaire, Peter F. Read (2004). “The Cubist Painters”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

  Winston Churchill

  Sarcastic, Time, Memories

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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