Time Quotes

• Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sacrifice

• I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South - was Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Book
  • High
  • Black

• I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Live
  • School
  • She

• Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Time

• Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

  

  John Berger
  • Time
  • Political
  • Greek

• Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

  

  Brian Acton
  • Time
  • Long

• This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else

  

  Eyedea
  • City
  • Pain
  • Despair

• 'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

  

  Jerry Ferrara
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Experience

• Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because you can talk to the audience. It feels really natural to be able to laugh with them, but at the same time still be within the framework of a play.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • Live
  • Done
  • Comedy

• Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • Time
  • Work

• Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Time
  • America
  • Path

• Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Period

• Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Age

• In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Small
  • Universe
  • Same

• Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Learning

• When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Time
  • Country
  • Jewelry

• The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Practice
  • Study
  • Stills

• I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Meaningful

• If the artist isn't having a great day or finds it all boring, my role becomes that of a coach. Getting the very best out of the artist. Helping them perform at their very best when it's game time. One way to get them there is to bring them out of their comfort zones.

  

  Max Martin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Game

• I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

  

  Ben Schott
  • Life
  • Book
  • Fun

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