The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
It’s time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
I don’t believe that many things are impossible to achieve so long as you put your mind to it and take the time to get it done.
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God’s light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.
We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.
I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.
Shout out to Sting: that’s the G.O.A.T. right there. The goat. Greatest of all time.
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was.
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
I believe there is a time for everything. Time changes, and you need to accept that. Else, you stagnate.
By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you’ve achieved – and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses – you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
When someone saves your life and gives you life, there’s gratitude, humility; there’s a time you’ve been so blessed you realize you’ve been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn’t deserve.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity–the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It’s not just a face on a piece of paper, and that’s what makes you someone’s favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that’s why we’re their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we’re their favorite.
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
In ‘The Sound of Music,’ I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, ‘I’m Brigitta. I’m 12, and all I want is a good time.’ I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that’s a problem I still have – onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am.
God has always opened up doors at the right time. He’s closed doors at the right time.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
I like a woman that’s capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.
I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.
Personally, I’ve learned about perseverance: when you hear the word ‘No,’ and when you hear rejection, that it’s not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I’ve always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don’t write about it.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.
If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.