Finding Time Quotes

#1. Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Deb Caletti

#2. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. Remember, you're allocating time to write, not finding time to write.

Paul J. Silvia

#4. Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

William Hazlitt

#5. If finding 'time' for someone is an Art, then I become world class artist when I think of 'you

Kritika Sharma

#6. Do you need to "find time to teach"? Of course not---you have a teaching schedule, and you never miss it. [...] Finding time is a destructive way of thinking about writing. Never say this again. Instead of finding time to write, allot time to write.

Paul J. Silvia

#7. A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

Rick Warren

#8. I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

Tabatha Coffey

#9. If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.

Josh Kaufman

#10. Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.

Phoebe Philo

#11. One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

Bob Keeshan

#12. Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human's destination

Sunday Adelaja

#13. You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Arne Jacobsen

#14. I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.

Aaron Rodgers

#15. There's a huge difference between doing what you love as a hobby and doing something professionally. But the biggest struggle is simply finding time to work.

Ryan McGinness

#16. The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn't just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

Lysa TerKeurst

#17. The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

Richard Carlson

#18. At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

Bob Dole

#19. You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Anthony Bourdain

#20. I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

Veronica Roth

#21. I love the communication aspect with my athletes. I like the one on one time with my athletes but really its about making them better athletes and finding out what makes them tick.

Robin Farina

#22. Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Paul Twitchell

#23. An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.

S.A. Tawks

#24. It was the first time I had ever felt guilt at finding a man attractive.

Tabitha McGowan

#25. A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Guy De Maupassant

#26. I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.

Soleil Moon Frye

#27. We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

Yoko Ono

#28. As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.

Cory Basil

#29. I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

Dree Hemingway

#30. I always thought high school was supposed to be a time for finding yourself, but I guess that's only if you fit into the mold people have made for you.

Renee Dyer

#31. The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

Katarina Witt

#32. The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Julia Cameron

#33. Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.

Djimon Hounsou

#34. During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.

Miriam Toews

#35. I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

Bruce Springsteen

#36. My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

Jillian Medoff

#37. All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its ... motivation. Thus vampires spend a lot of time lounging around and staring out of the window and finding they can't be arsed.

Glen Duncan

#38. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

#39. A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger. pg. 287

Elise Broach

#40. Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.

Alison Jackson

#41. I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

Peter Ackroyd

#42. First of all, a**hole, I'm not into voodoo and if I was I wouldn't use it for this. Second, we came over here for a reason and we aren't leaving until you hear us out. Jennifer was good and pissed. Finding a Nyhiya was supposed to be a happy time. Not this bulls***. Stupid Alpha males.

Shakuita Johnson

#43. God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet!

Shannon L. Alder

#44. I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

Tom Brokaw

#45. Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#46. For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.

Rob Lowe

#47. Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

Randy Bachman

#48. I don't need to know my name because by the time I'm done, you'll forget yours.

June Gray

#49. Instead of finding myself in the future, I traveled about fifty metres along the sidewalk at 200mph before finding myself in a bush. When asked by the nurse filling out the hospital accident reports 'Cause of accident?' I stated, 'time travel attempt' but she wrote down 'stupidity'.

David Thorne

#50. Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

Mariel Hemingway

#51. Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

Hugh McCutcheon

#52. He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.

Steven Erikson

#53. People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Thomas Perez

#54. Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

Pema Chodron

#55. If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.

John Avery

#56. In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Christopher Hitchens

#57. If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

Lykke Li

#58. I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

Janine Di Giovanni

#59. I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

Anne Tyler

#60. Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

Jill Hennessy

#61. Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

Steve Martin

#62. A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever.

Quint Studer

#63. Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.

Deepak Chopra

#64. We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

Joko Beck

#65. So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself
And I didn't know I was lost

Aloe Blacc

#66. We all have a tree inside us. Finding it is just a matter of time.

Sahar Delijani

#67. But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

Enzo Ferrari

#68. The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

J.R. Miller

#69. In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

Mark Edwards

#70. A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Nanette Newman

#71. I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

Camila Alves

#72. Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come?

Hermann Hesse

#73. No one writes to make money. Authors write stories to fill the world with imagination for those who have a hard time finding their own.

S.L. Perrine

#74. Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.

Chris Guillebeau

#75. New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

Lindsey Kelk

#76. In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Halle Berry

#77. Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. The last time I was this close to him, it was a commotion of touching. His hands, picking apart the rigid panels of my exoskeleton. His mouth, finding mine with the certainty of a meteor.

Brenna Yovanoff

#79. Health, not illness, is our natural state. It's usually just a matter of finding it tucked beneath the layers of imbalance that have accumulated over time.

Suhas G. Kshirsagar

#80. If we experience life thoughtfully and bravely, we discover the journey doesn't end in a watercolored sunset on the horizon. Rather, we keep finding new roads with even greater challenges. Our ambitions expand because our courage soars, one success at a time.

Karen Henry Clark

#81. I had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through the spanish moss, lost in the mystery of finding myself alive at such a time and place.

Walker Percy

#82. Smashing things up is a time-honoured particle-physicist method of finding out more about them.

Jon Butterworth

#83. I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

Christopher Hitchens

#84. The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time ...

Swami Vivekananda

#85. May you find what you are searching for in the right places

Lailah Gifty Akita

#86. Relationships take time and effort; they're not always like the fairytale they start off as. Finding your soul mate isn't the hard part; staying together is.

Neha Yazmin

#87. Our day-to-day lives are pretty chaotic. So in terms of the writing part, you have to get pretty disciplined about finding quiet moments and making sure you're making time for the art side, on top of all the time-consuming business side.

Sarah Kay

#88. Then I tell you that sadness, in a way, is just another form of beauty. It can be a bit more melancholic, dramatic, heart-breaking and so, so quiet. The most emotional of things, finding its reflection in the world in decay, are those things we love the most from time to time.

Kate Luysterborg

#89. The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

#90. The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#91. Timing is everything. What good is finding the RIGHT thing if it's the WRONG time?

Mandy Hale

#92. Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is mean or fault- finding or finger-pointing but because he wants us to know the joy of being cleaned out, ready for all the good things he now has in store.

N. T. Wright

#93. We come to the realization of the heart that it is time to change when we become addicted to fixing a problem instead of proactively finding solutions.

Molly Friedenfeld

#94. I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.

Jenny Slate

#95. The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Reba McEntire

#96. I couldn't help daydreaming that I was Elizabeth and Gabe was Mr. Darcy. fighting against his blossoming feelings for me. Discovering that his passion was beyond his control and finding me more and more desirable each time we met.

Kristin Walker

#97. I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Charles Mingus

#98. Finding great training, I think, is number one. I did a lot of research and found really great teachers, and it just takes - I took a year off from school and did independent studies so that I could devote all of my time to it. But I think that training is the key, definitely, and it's not a sport.

Misty Copeland

#99. For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours ... all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet.

Stephenie Meyer

#100. Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

William Hazlitt