"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."
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"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time."
"Time brings all things to pass."
"When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
"Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others."
"The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time."
"Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . ."
"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
"A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments."
"We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life."
"At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials."
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."
"Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot."
"Nothing is our except time."
"I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time."
"We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed."
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."
"Time's ruins build eternity's mansions."