Robin Williams Quotes

Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Robin Williams

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Me
  • Saying

• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Game
  • Focus

• I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • May
  • Moving

• For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Heart

• So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Time
  • Good
  • Care

• I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Feel
  • Learned
  • Students

• I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Time
  • Done
  • Why

• Sheriff Bart: Since I am your host and you are my guest what are your hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time?Jim 'The Waco Kid': Oh you know, play chess...screw.Sheriff Bart: Well let's play chess!

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Time
  • Free
  • Chess

• For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Life
  • Time

• Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

  

  David Nail

• Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.

  

  Norman Ornstein
  • Money
  • Congress
  • Lobbyists

• I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, 'All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it's a keeper.' But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Time
  • Teacher
  • Students