Time Quotes

• I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.

  

  Carl Hart
  • People
  • Time
  • Stupid

• People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

  

  Marco Arment
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Broken

• My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

  

  J. C. R. Licklider
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Decision

• It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that the first thing I do when I'm done, no matter if it's 4 in the morning... I literally just pick up my phone and I call someone.

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• Candidly, I've noticed that throughout my career, whether in offices that are majority male or majority female, the men are quick to advocate for themselves for a higher starting salary or more pay bumps over time.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Men
  • Career
  • Salary

• We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Space
  • Technology

• I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

  

  Abel Stevens
  • Long
  • Divided
  • Regularity

• I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • She
  • Remember
  • Party

• I'm glad President Obama followed my lead and lowered the flags half-staff. It's about time!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time

• What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • Time
  • Endurance

• I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Words
  • Stop
  • Simple

• And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Time

• I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Great
  • Hand
  • Star

• 'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Parents

• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Philosophy

• How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • American
  • Dirty
  • Mysterious

• When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Hand
  • Fall
  • Smile

• As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Science
  • Words
  • Hand

• Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Time

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