Quotes about Time
The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You're probably still going to get it wrong, but you'll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that's a couple weeks over rather than a long one that's a couple months over. Keep breaking your time frames down into
— Jason Fried
The psalmist spoke of a time when the whole earth will "be filled with His glory" (Ps. 72:19). The book of Revelation predicts a time when "the kingdoms of this world" will become "the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ" (11:15).
— David Jeremiah
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
— Dr. Seuss
I don't need time, I need a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the last piece, for God's sake stop talking about revival, your talking and praying is but the laughing-stock of devils. It is about time we got into the grips of reality. Are we thirsty?
— Duncan Campbell
This did not happen in spite of the chronos season; it happened because of what was taking place in and through the chronos season.
— Dutch Sheets
A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer. We don't wait well. We're into microwaving; God, on the other hand, is usually into marinating.
— Dutch Sheets
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.
— Edith Wharton
Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....
— Edith Wharton
Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.
— Edith Wharton