Categories Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Even in some industrialized nations, time is viewed more as an estimate than an exact science. Brazilians, Spaniards, and Southeast Indians, for instance, don’t…

— Diana Delonzor

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for…

— Mary Brave Bird

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

— Dan Harmon

“Time is ubiquitous to humanity and nature but its ephemeral experience within and among us is conceptualized through the lens of culture and langauge”

— Oliver Harper

Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments.…

— David Lynch

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

— Alan Watts

“Time is a quotient of the laws of the universe with a distinct directionality, depending on your cultural lens of seeing time as circular…

— oliver harper

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the…

— Jay Griffiths

“A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man’s total slavery to clocks. A clock is a convenient…

— Alan Wilson Watts

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all…

— Ellen Goodman