3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 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.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
3 December 2020 Michael Jackson Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.
3 December 2020 Coco Chanel Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill 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.
3 December 2020 Lillian Smith When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
3 December 2020 Black Elk The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
3 December 2020 Judy Garland We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
3 December 2020 Mary Schmich Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
3 December 2020 Drew Barrymore You can’t live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn’t do for you. You’re dealt the cards that you’re dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
3 December 2020 James Allen The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it’s time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
3 December 2020 Bruce Lee If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
