- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I just play a glamour doll in 'Vijayendra Varma,' for the first time in my career.
- Good Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
- Greatest Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was not working, when our children were little, our life was all about our kids and our relationship. We didn't spend tons of time going off and spending time with friends and going on vacations alone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from absolutely everything. Look at him in the eyes - get to know your baby. Sitting there as you watch TV is not quality time to me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.
- Nest
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been given the gift of a billion years of cosmic time, and we should not screw it up. But at the rate we're using up our planet's natural resources and fouling our own nest means we're not going to last a billion years.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could think of the galaxy as a sort of stove with lots of pots on it, and the pots are the interstellar medium, like a chicken broth getting stronger with every reduction. Every time a supernova goes off and sends its heavy elements out into the interstellar medium, we cook up a stew that's better and better for solar systems and life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020