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Quotes about Time

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Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.

It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.

Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.

Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units (SI) and International System of Quantities. The SI base unit of time is the second, which is defined by measuring the electronic transition frequency of caesium atoms.

General relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through advances in both theoretical and experimental investigations of spacetime, it has been shown that time can be distorted and dilated, particularly at the edges of black holes.

Throughout history, time has been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science.

Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and technologists and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy.

Time is also of significant social importance, having economic value (“time is money”) as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in human life spans

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Marthe Troly-Curtin, “Phrynette Married”

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges.

Life is too short to be unhappy.”

Roy T. Bennett

“How did it get so late so soon?”

Dr. Seuss

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want.

You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.

We can make the best or the worst of it.

I hope you make the best of it.

And I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

Eric Roth,
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay”

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Time is an illusion.”

Albert Einstein

“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

Heraclitus, “Fragments”

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.

What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time:

the Now.

That is precious indeed.

The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

Eckhart Tolle,
“The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…

And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.

There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”

Seneca, “Natural Questions”

“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”

Walt Disney

The Universe is very, very big.

It also loves a paradox.

For example, it has some extremely strict rules.

Rule number one:

Nothing lasts forever.

Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun.

It is an absolute rule.

Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two:

Everything lasts forever.”

Craig Ferguson,
“Between the Bridge and the River”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

Oscar Wilde

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people –
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”

Charles Bukowski

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

Dante Alighieri

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.

Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

Napoleon Hill

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. …

Time itself must come to a stop.

You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang.

We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in.

For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed.

Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. …

So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense.

Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in.

It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth.

The Earth is a sphere.

It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”

Stephen W. Hawking

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

Eckhart Tolle

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.”

William Faulkner,
“The Sound and the Fury”

“Nothing endures but change.”

Heraclitus

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours.

Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes.

Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia.

At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale.

Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident.

Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour.

At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins.

Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight.

The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.

Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless.

Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw.

And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger.

It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment.

In fact, not many things do for long.”

Bill Bryson,
“A Short History of Nearly Everything”

“Time is Galleons, little brother.”

J.K. Rowling,
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit.

Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does.

The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making.

So it is with a life, anyone’s life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming.

And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.”

Joseph Bruchac

I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair …

Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering!

And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live—that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea…”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
“White Nights”

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.

We have no present.

Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.

We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

We are therefore out of touch with reality.

We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.

We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”

Alan Wilson Watts

“Enjoy life.

There’s plenty of time to be dead.”

Hans Christian Andersen

“I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes, this is my busy –
and I will not apologize for it.”

Brittin Oakman

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind.

No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over.

No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives!

We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”

Seneca,
“On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It”

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency.

No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”

Christopher Rice

…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal.

It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience.

Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language.

The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state.

It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”

Charles Yu,
“How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

Horace

“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.

And it makes me wonder if we’ve utilized our time properly or not.

Proper utilization of time is so important.

While we have this body, and especially this amazing human brain, I think every minute is something precious.

Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future.

There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here.

But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope.

So, we need to make the best use of our time.

I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings.

If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy.

So, let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that.

The purpose of our life needs to be positive.

We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others.

For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities—warmth, kindness, compassion.

Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful—happier.”

Dalai Lama XIV,
“The Art of Happiness”

Research Quotes

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

Albert Einstein

“The element of chance in basic research is overrated.

Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.”

Hans Selye

“Oersted would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his researches to consider in what manner they could possibly be turned to practical account; and so we would not now be able to boast of the wonders done by the electric telegraphs.

Indeed, no great law in Natural Philosophy has ever been discovered for its practical implications, but the instances are innumerable of investigations apparently quite useless in this narrow sense of the word which have led to the most valuable results.”

Lord Kelvin

“The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.”

Celia Green

“The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart.

It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun.

It is, rather, a command center, a power base.

A board room, a war room.

An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies.

One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.”

Eric Burns, “The Joy of Books”

“I think that the thing I most want you to remember is that research is a ceremony.

And so is life.

Everything that we do shares in the ongoing creation of our universe.”

Shawn Wilson

“Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic.

Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.”

Criss Jami, “Healology”

“What we find changes who we become.”

Peter Morville

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…

And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.

There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”

Seneca, “Natural Questions”

Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations;

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment… have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

[Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 –
Writings 26:484–89]
George Washington, “Writings”

“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”

Steven Weinberg

“Do research.

Feed your talent.

Research not only wins the war on cliche, it’s the key to victory over fear and it’s cousin, depression.”

Robert McKee

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

Thomas Huxley

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn.

We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?”

Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle in the Dark”

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy          in logic.”

Thomas Huxley

“The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”

Paul Dirac

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”

Nicholas Butler

“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is?

As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.

Nightclubs are great literary research centers.

So is Ibiza!”

Roman Payne, “Cities & Countries”

Introspection is a form of self-management.

You reflect.

You decide.

You change.

You allow yourself to grow.”

Raoul Davis Jr.,
“Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life”

“Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?”

Michael Faraday

“People who “go by the book“, need to research who wrote it.:

Carlos Wallace

“A good researcher is the one who reduces the distance between Imagination and Reality.”

P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Part of research is testing the final product.”

Steven Magee

“Research is about making many connections that lead to discovery.”

Steven Magee

“RESEARCH IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN PROVE, RESEARCH IS ALL ABOUT WHAT OTHERS FAILED TO PROVE, THE LAW OF RESEARCH.”

P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Research always has a price.”

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“Every seeker of truth is a progressive person.”

Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

“In academia, the model that we are taught; that we are told in most fields – not the arts, and not the experimental sciences either – but many, many fields, [the model] is:

– You have an idea,

– You accumulate everything that anyone has ever written about that idea,

– You become familiar with what everyone has already said about it,

– And from there, you cobble together the pieces: the evidence either for or against your [idea], or you just review what they’ve done and you create something that’s a little bit new.

Over in science space I call this “Brick in the Wall Science”.

It’s valuable that some people are doing Brick in the Wall Science but you will always have the same foundation of the house that you started with with Brick in the Wall Science, and it’s possible the foundation of the house you started with is not the foundation that you want or that is true. […]

[With Brick in the Wall Science] you can’t have revolutionary ideas.

You can’t have paradigm shifts.”

“Research is formalized curiosity.

It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

Zora Neale Hurston

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Ernest L. Boyer

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Carl Sagan

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.

Seneca, “Natural Questions”

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