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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod '60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.
- Even Now
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- Nov 07, 2020