- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It's all because of entropy increasing.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches back to the days of Heraclitus and Parmenides, pre-Socratic thinkers who are staples of introductory philosophy courses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential. Time might instead emerge to play an important role in the macroscopic world of our experience, even if it is nowhere to be found in the final Theory of Everything.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!
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- Nov 07, 2020