“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Remember that Time is Money.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say yes to one thing you are inevitably saying no to another.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs Primary source“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
— Jack London Secondary source“History, in the objective meaning of the word, is the process of change; in the subjective meaning, it is the study of how and why one situation changes into another.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary sourceTo see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
“These Secret Service people always seemed to have time for sex however important their jobs might be.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Time enough always proves little enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Love the day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you have time don’t wait for time.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“There is no sense in calculating the probability or the chance that something happens after it happens.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Time is an herb that cures all diseases.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“We have invented machines to work for us, but have less spare labor than ever before for human service.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“Lost time is never found again.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think, than in all the other time. I’d like to be an old man and to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew about so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“‘Tomorrow!’ What possibilities there are in that word.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It’s called the graph.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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