“I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.”
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.
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
“I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.”
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.”
“When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.”
“No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”
“Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“Friends are thieves of time.”
“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
“Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”
“By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.”
“How time files when you's doin' all the talking.”