3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
3 December 2020 Charles Bukowski The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
3 December 2020 Kim Basinger I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
3 December 2020 Jim Brown I’m not interested in trying to work on people’s perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don’t take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don’t worry girls, look like a wreck, that’s the way it goes.
3 December 2020 Jack London The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it’s time for you to get out of the way.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
3 December 2020 Mary Kay Ash No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
3 December 2020 Seth Godin The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
3 December 2020 Henry Rollins Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
3 December 2020 Alan Lakein Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
3 December 2020 Helen Hunt Jackson O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
3 December 2020 George Mason A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
3 December 2020 Swami Vivekananda Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
