Francis Bacon Quotes

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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• You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Important
  • Rest

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Time
  • Present

• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Time
  • Deep

• I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Time
  • Lived
  • Montreal

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Passion

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Important
  • Modern

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Time
  • Credit

• I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful

• I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Power
  • Dark

• And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?

  

  William Cowper
  • Sin
  • Common
  • Kissing

• I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

  

  Penny Marshall
  • People
  • Job

• I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

  

  Eleanor Mondale
  • Up
  • Career
  • College

• Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.

  

  Hilary Beckles
  • Effort
  • Development
  • Realize

• There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time
  • Wisdom
  • Beginnings