1. "The common man
is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by
it." –Shoppenhauer
2. "Live your
life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest
you've ever been and the youngest you'll be ever again." - Suzanne Collins
3. "Every moment
is precious to those who know the value of time." – Unknown
4. “See then that ye
walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the
days are evil”. - Ephesians 5:15,16
5. "If you love
life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee
6. "If
methodically, thoughtfully, for many years to apply the System, it will give
more than talent. With its help, abilities are like being multiplied. It's a
long-range weapon; it is a lens that gathers the rays together." - D.A.
Granin. This is strange life (Documentary novel about A.A. Lyubishchev, 1974;
System – Time tracking).
7. “So teach us to
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” – Psalms 90:12
8. "Part of
spending your time better is knowing exactly how you’re spending it now. If
you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you know that nutritionists tell you to keep
a food journal because it keeps you from eating mindlessly. It’s the same thing
with time." – Laura Vanderkam
9. "The first step
toward more effective use of your time is not making a new schedule but
analyzing your old one." – Peter F. Drucker
10. "In regard to
the time, I'm an addict: the more I use it, the more I need it" - Tadeusz
Kotarbiński
11. “You can't add days
to your life, but you can add life to your days!” - Unknown
12. "One man esteemeth
one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be
fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto
the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard
it..." – Romans 14:5,6
13. “The bad news is
time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
14. "Time is
precious... Waste it wisely." –Unknown
15. "Lubishchev's
time is, in a sense, tamed, it's different than ordinary, it's grown by him,
it's breeding, very fruitful, it's, if anything, the time of the Creator."
- D.A. Granin. This is strange life (Documentary novel about A.A. Lyubishchev, 1974)
16. "Take care of
the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves." -Lord
Chesterfield
17. "Don’t say you
don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that
were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da
Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown
18. “Nothing is a waste
of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin
19. "Oh, how
precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if
only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do
his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!" – Saint Padre Pio
20. “For all our days
are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. The
days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength
they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is
soon cut off, and we fly away.” – Psalm 90:9-10
21. "Time management
is life management." – Robin Sharma
22. "I think it's
through data that we can seek improvement and unless you know about something,
you're often unable to make changes towards improvement." – Jarrod
Robinson
23. "Data leads to
knowledge and knowledge leads to action." – Gina Neff
24. "Never give up
on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time
will pass anyway." – Earl Nightingale
25. "Again, be
careful to make a good improvement of precious time." – David Brainerd
26. “Rivers know this:
there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
27. "Happiness
does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities." –
Aristotle
28. “To every thing
there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…” –
Ecclesiastes 3:1
29. "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." – Charles Richards
30. "Time stays
long enough for those who use it." – Leonardo Da Vinci
31. "One is lonely
only when one has the time for it." – Janusz Leon Wiśniewski (Loneliness
in the net)
32. "It's enough
to take a closer look at the present and the future will show up itself" –
Nikolai Gogol
33. "Look at the
day like at small life" – Maxim Gorky
34. “Those who never
have time do least” – Georg Lichtenberg
35. "Human skill
is a mixture of patience and time." – Honore de Balzac
36. "To realize
the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of
ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of
ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of
ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of
ONE MINUTE, ask a person who just missed a train.
To realize the value of
ONE SECOND, ask someone who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of
ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal at the Olympics."
37. "Wise person
is the one who is irritated by the waste of time" – Dante Alighieri
38. “Time tracking
helps to improve personal efficiency, almost without any efforts. Human
psychology is such that as soon as he begins to track any indicators, they
begin to change in the desired direction by themselves, without any additional
actions to improve them.” – Gleb Arhangelsky
39. "Good use of
time makes the time even more precious" – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
40. “Most people
overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in
ten years.” – Jim Rohn
41. "... In order
to understand what happens to time, it is necessary to track it. Few people are
able to record all your actions up to 15 minutes during 56 years, as did
Lyubishchev, but anyone can carry out the experiment for a few days." –
Yana Frank
42. "Time is long
enough for anyone to take the opportunity. Who works and who thinks extends the
limits." – Voltaire
43. "The daily
planning generates a narrow view of things, such as in a movie theater on the
first row. You are focused on the urgency, you take into account only hours. If
you plan for a week - it makes you think about the importance of tasks and
their effectiveness." – Bodo Schafer
44. “Measurement is the
first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t
measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you
can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” – H. James
Harrington
45. “The only
difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their
spare time.” ― Robert T. Kiyosaki
46. “The secret of our
unhappiness is that we have time to think whether we are happy or not.” –
George Bernard Shaw
47. “A man who dares to
waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” - Charles Darwin
48. “Time is what we
want most, but what we spend worst.” — William Penn
49. “The more time we
spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to
develop true friendships in the real world.” – Alex Morritt
50. “Everything
requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place
in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique,
irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes
effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.” – Peter F.
Drucker
And one more “bonus”
quote :
51. “Take a rest. A
field that has rested yields a beautiful crop.” – Roman poet Ovid
