Their Time Quotes
374 quotes by 328 authors
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The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
— Ayn Rand
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Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art…
— Richard Huelsenbeck
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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to…
— Bernard Crick
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I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon…
— Michel Odent
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And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
— Andrew Marvell
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Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to…
— Chris Hughes
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I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.
— Vaclav Havel
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Wealthy people always know the exact value of their time.
— Marshall Sylver
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If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other…
— Jakob Nielsen
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Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.
— John Baldessari
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people…
— Anne Perry
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It's wonderful to work for a company that gives so much back to its communities, especially to our children. Donations are only one way we…
— Patricia Brooks
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The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their…
— Ricky Gervais
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... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not take pleasure in…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
— Maurice Gibb
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The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In…
— Ken Wilber
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Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be…
— Ezra Taft Benson
Who Wrote These Their Time Quotes
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