- Me
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any time you get to see Paul McCartney, it is pretty special.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first time at Staples Center - it was a great win, great experience. It was fun to play there - a lot of big games have been played there.
- Edwardian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
- Summer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020