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"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."
"Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide."
"Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."
"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
"One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource."
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
"Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be."
"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important."
"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
"The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain."
"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
"Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time."
"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."
"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all."
"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn."
"To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now."
"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."
"Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still."
