Use Of Time Quotes

• We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Time, Presidential

  John F. Kennedy's Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers, www.jfklibrary.org. December 5, 1961.

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

  Lee Iacocca

  Time, Discipline, Giving

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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• Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

  Anthony Charles Richards

  Time, Motivation, Men

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Time, Life Is Too Short

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• The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Way, Use, Increase

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.452, Macmillan

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• We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Natural

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.95, Moody Publishers

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• Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Important, Use

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.296, Harper Collins

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• Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Today Is The Day, Perfect Days, Use

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.141, Aum Publications

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• The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Long, Use

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Gold, Use

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.36, Franciscan Media

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• I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Baby, Humor

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

  R. C. Sproul

  Hands, Focus, Mind

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• We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet surely the exploration and expansion of the miracle of our consciousness is the essence of what it is to be human? By demonstrating and persecuting whole areas of consciousness, we may be denying ourselves the next vital step in our own evolution.

  Graham Hancock

  Essence, Miracle, Expansion

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• Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

  Lisa Alther

  Inspirational, Time, Use

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.304, Open Road Media

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• I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Book, Writing, Use

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• I think a much better use of time and resources is to really focus on your existing users or customers and figure out what changes can you make in the Web site, the service, the product, whatever, to get them to come back more often to generate that repeat business and once you kind of figure out that formula, then when you get new customers the whole thing just kind of grows exponentially.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, Focus, Use

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

  Leland Ryken

  Discovery, Self, Expression

  Leland Ryken (2003). “Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective”, p.180, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

  Ridley Pearson

  Thinking, Boys, Years

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