“I keep working because I learn something new all the time.”
Time is the one resource you cannot earn more of. These quotes explore how we spend it, waste it, treasure it, and try to slow it down — and the universal human experience of realizing too late that a particular moment mattered more than you thought.
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
“I keep working because I learn something new all the time.”
“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”
“A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.”
“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
“It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.”
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
“I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.”
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.”