- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Average People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
- Irreplaceable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Other people are best late at night.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time to build a network is always before you need one.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020