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- The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
- Author Unknown
- To save time is to lengthen life.
- Author Unknown
- You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
- Vauvenargues
- Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
- Samuel Smiles
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
- Robert J. McKain
- I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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