Top 100 Quotes About Time Spent
#1. Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
Mark Twain
#2. Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.
Ian McDonald
#3. Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley
#4. Friendship is created out of the quality of time spent between two people, not the quantity.
Keith Ferrazzi
#5. Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.
Richard Louv
#7. You don't get older during the time spent in church, he told us.
He pushed a shopping cart with a few rags and a bottle of Windex in it.
We gave him a dollar.
Joy Williams
#8. Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.
Catherine Of Genoa
#10. the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1.
Robert C. Martin
#11. You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.
Andy Borowitz
#12. I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
Abby Wambach
#13. So much time spent believing
we had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to haunting
ourselves.
D.J. MacLennan
#14. Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.
Max Brooks
#15. All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
Jupiter Hammon
#16. After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
Colum McCann
#18. Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
Adora Svitak
#19. We may learn things from one who preaches, or we may find their pontificating a waste of time - often enough, a hypocritical waste of time. What child ever preaches? Yet time spent open-heartedly with a child is never wasted.
Quentin S. Crisp
#20. A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.
Daniel Kahneman
#21. I see my future
now not as something
intangible like a dream,
but like a boat
meeting land
after time spent at sea,
a destination I will reach.
Stephanie Hemphill
#22. Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
Jasper Fforde
#23. He's hard. And he's huge. I can feel him against my belly. Warmth gushes through me, pooling between my legs. It's been so long and I know instinctively that any sexual time spent with Cash would be earth-shattering, soul-screaming, body-rocking time.
M. Leighton
#24. Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
Rebecca West
#25. My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
David Rakoff
#26. Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) x Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)
Tom Rath
#27. Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
Nhat Hanh
#28. KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don't care if you're Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It's that SIMPLE.
Carew Papritz
#29. Schooling is certainly not a great proxy for knowhow and knowledge, since it is by definition a measure of the time spent in an establishment, not of the knowledge embodied in a person's brain.
Cesar Hidalgo
#30. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.
P. J. O'Rourke
#31. When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.
Tom Rath
#32. With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
Samuel Johnson
#33. After some time spent with me, people start saying: "It's as if you knew what I was thinking". They never consider this as a fact.
Robin Sacredfire
#34. Even the greatest stories can be summed up in a few paragraphs. What makes them so much longer, is all the time spent editing.
Jason Mallory
#35. The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life.
Neil Gaiman
#36. Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
Robert Half
#37. Why wasn't my time spent helping people instead of a puppy? I don't know and I don't care but at least I saved something.
Jay Kopelman
#38. Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#40. He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss).
David McCullough
#41. Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.
Jonathan Kellerman
#42. Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
Robert Breault
#43. So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.
Steve Martin
#44. What's your definition of dating?
Lengthy social time spent with a woman during which we're not actively fucking
Sylvia Day
#45. Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted.
Mary Stewart
#46. I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.
Andy Biersack
#47. There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
Nate Powell
#48. God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.
Barrett Tillman
#49. I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country ...
Susan Cain
#50. It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
Anthony Marais
#51. Perhaps the greatest lesson she'd learned was that the quality of one's relationships had less to do with time spent together than with the manner in which it was spent.
Linda Kay Silva
#52. Free and fearless courage comes from time spent with Jesus.
Katy Kauffman
#53. The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#54. Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.
Steve Krug
#55. Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in play will be balanced against the utility to be derived from other obtainable goods.
Murray Rothbard
#56. Without thinking, Lillian let out a few curse words that caused Evie to blanch. One of Lillian's more questionable accomplishments was the ability to swear as fluently as a sailor, acquired from much time spent with her grandmother, who had worked as a washwoman at the harbor docks.
Lisa Kleypas
#57. Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3
John C. Maxwell
#58. All time spent reading is time well-spent.
W. H. Auden
#59. Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.
David Malouf
#60. As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.
Vincent Piazza
#61. I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
Salar Kamangar
#62. The amount of time spent on a product will determine its value
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
Robin Marantz Henig
#64. After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
Mary Shelley
#66. I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time.
Barbara Kingsolver
#67. How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once
through inexperience, as we now perceive
we missed that happiness we might have found!
William Cowper
#68. Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#69. Total time spent together with effort yields the value of a product
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again.
Lee Wilkinson
#71. Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.
Robert Pozen
#72. One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him.
Thomas Mann
#73. What his time spent with women offered was the opportunity 2 be embraced by reality on the one hand, while negating it entirely on the other
Haruki Murakami
#74. I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.
Naomi Novik
#75. If I confuse my ministerial duties with time spent alone with God, I can draw just enough spiritual nutrients from my job to make it through another day but not enough to sustain a life infused with the power and presence of Jesus.
Dave Jacobs
#77. If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
Nicholas Sparks
#78. Time spent in being interrupted is not time lost ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
#79. Time spent in nature is time realizing that you don't know it all, that you never will. The earth is meant to be enjoyed by its inhabitants.
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#80. A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
Mike Krzyzewski
#81. Time engaged working on your own goals and dreams, is time spent as the richest person in the world.
Garry Fitchett
#82. It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.
Malcolm Gladwell
#83. Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.
Elizabeth George
#85. I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.
Mitch Albom
#86. Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
Anne Lamott
#87. I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
Ann Patchett
#88. A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.
Antony Beevor
#89. Time spent with people of not your liking is time wasted
Lou Silluzio
#90. It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
Frank Shorter
#91. There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.
Dennis Prager
#92. Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.
Francis Alys
#93. The time spent building a solid foundation will pay for itself ten-fold.
Darren Varndell
#94. Too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.
Jo Baker
#95. When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.
Henry Reed
#96. Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean Acheson
#97. Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.
A.J. Darkholme
#98. To buy dinner transmits that you feel time spent in your date's company has been a pleasure and a privilege.
Lynn Coady
#99. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.
Robert C. Martin
#100. The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.
Gretchen Rubin
