Spend Good Time Quotes

#1. What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with? - Author: Zig Ziglar

#2. I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that "other eye," which we can use to judge ourselves. - Author: Doris Lessing

#3. I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together. - Author: Lena Dunham

#4. I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there. - Author: Patrick DeWitt

#5. I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was ... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way. - Author: Jim Dine

#6. The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching. - Author: Neil Farber

#7. Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi. - Author: Tia Mowry

#8. I live what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people. - Author: Mother Antonia

#9. If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time - Author: Bill Belichick

#10. You can't spend a lot of time worrying about how things were. They won't change and there's some good. - Author: Paige Shelton

#11. Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#12. I don't think you could have a banker serving in a major role in Washington in the next 10 years. I just don't think it's going to happen - it's just not politically feasible - so I don't spend much time thinking about it. Do I think I could do a good job? Maybe. It's possible. - Author: Jamie Dimon

#13. Downturns are the best time to start businesses, because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times. - Author: Kevin O'Leary

#14. You have your whole life ahead of you," my mother told me, "don't spend all your time in the past." It's good advice, I know it is, but the past has its own ideas. It can follow you around with a life of its own, casting a long shadow. - Author: Gregory Galloway

#15. Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better. - Author: Michael Leunig

#16. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#17. It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too. - Author: Kalki Koechlin

#18. It was not a terribly good stab. Millers' daughters do not traditionally spend a great deal of time engaged in single combat. - Author: T. Kingfisher

#19. I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them. - Author: Pete Best

#20. Distance is not for the fearful, it's for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough - Author: Meghan Daum

#21. It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#22. One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you. - Author: Zoe McLellan

#23. Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good! - Author: M. J. Hyland

#24. Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really give your brain a workout, because you spend so much time wondering what incredibly dumb thing the author will say next. - Author: Joe Queenan

#25. I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they want to have a good time. You don't always want to be hit over the head with history or how bad society is. - Author: Ice Cube

#26. I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken. - Author: Claire Legrand

#27. Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy. - Author: Gena Showalter

#28. This life requires scars. Some are more obvious than others, and some are only on the inside. What matters is how you spend your time during the good parts. - Author: T.S. Joyce

#29. Why did you do this? You could lose your job or worse."
"I wanted to spend some time alone with you. Tomorrow, you might be leaving for good." He leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. Reluctantly, he pulled away. "You're worth the risk. - Author: Julia Crane

#30. If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing. - Author: Chael Sonnen

#31. For most Americans, their primary aspiration is to achieve a better life ... to earn a livable wage in a good job. To have the time to spend with family and do the things they enjoy. To be able to retire with security. And to give their own kids a chance to do as well or better than themselves. - Author: Marco Rubio

#32. Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds. - Author: John Carmack

#33. People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do? - Author: Eric Davis

#34. I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids. - Author: Steve Zahn

#35. Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them. - Author: Tom Scholz

#36. I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30. - Author: Martin Millar

#37. Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs. - Author: Sherwood Anderson

#38. My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it. - Author: Michael Pollan

#39. You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?
I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself. - Author: Jennifer Donnelly

#40. From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model. - Author: Ben Horowitz

#41. It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach. - Author: Ally Carter

#42. Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve. - Author: Craig Bruce

#43. I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood. - Author: Raul Esparza

#44. I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill. - Author: Peter Menzel

#45. Vhalla wasn't exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people. - Author: Elise Kova

#46. I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me. - Author: Osamu Dazai

#47. As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn't "Is this a good book?" but "Is this really the story I want to spend my time on? - Author: Rachel Aaron

#48. Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. - Author: Dave Eggers

#49. I spend a fair chunk of time in Los Angeles, and after about ten days of warmth and unbroken clear skies, you start to yearn for a bit of good old British gloom and rain! - Author: Sean Bean

#50. When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure. - Author: Andrew O'Hagan

#51. I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. - Author: Maj Sjowall

#52. We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good ... or at least put-out. - Author: Dov Davidoff

#53. I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything. - Author: Melanie Fiona

#54. I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at. - Author: Sam Altman

#55. North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best. - Author: Michael Kors

#56. I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends. - Author: Maria Sharapova

#57. Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your inside with your outside, that's what you should spend your time doing. - Author: G.G. Renee Hill

#58. First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. - Author: Mike Krzyzewski

#59. Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences. - Author: Douglas W. Hubbard

#60. I always thought it would have been fun to spend an evening with Patsy Cline - just because I think she was really fun and interesting. I think you'd have a really good time with her. - Author: Martina Mcbride

#61. Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie. - Author: Warren Christopher

#62. Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has. - Author: Og Mandino

#63. I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone. - Author: Amy Sedaris

#64. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple! - Author: Melina Marchetta

#65. It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself and my work to thousands of people that are following me or my friends. I do think that social media can be good for self-promotion. - Author: Kim Stolz

#66. With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing. - Author: Sarah Polley

#67. [The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons. - Author: John Daly

#68. I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them. - Author: Katherine Hannigan

#69. There's no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators. - Author: Rebecca Solnit

#70. Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate. - Author: Quinn Cummings

#71. I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able. - Author: Neil Patrick Harris

#72. These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that's why there are so few good ones anymore. - Author: Lauren Carr

#73. I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there. - Author: Diane Setterfield

#74. My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?' - Author: Brad Thor

#75. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught. - Author: Lynn Coady

#76. I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better. - Author: Steve Purdy

#77. July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work. - Author: Colin Chapman

#78. I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself. - Author: Stephen Hawking

#79. The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. - Author: David Chipperfield

#80. Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner! - Author: Pio Of Pietrelcina

#81. Gia- Give me a good reason why i should see you.
Jax- Beacause, I want you to. Beacause I need to spend time with you. You make me feel ... human. Being with you maked me feel like I'm not a complete piece of shit. - Author: Sylvia Day

#82. The people have an incentive to spend wisely. So the health care savings accounts are such a good thing. It's such a good idea. And it's time for it. - Author: Donald Trump

#83. I think money isn't any good sitting around, so I spend some time in the shoe department at Saks. - Author: Janet Evanovich

#84. I just think they look good on people. You spend a lot of time in the mirror looking at yourself when you have tattoos. Same way with other people. It just looks good. - Author: The Rev

#85. Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her. - Author: Ray Bradbury

#86. The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it. - Author: Laura Linney

#87. While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary. - Author: David Boies

#88. When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days? - Author: Dave Grohl

#89. Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about. - Author: Alan Furst

#90. There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together. - Author: Picabo Street

#91. When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more. - Author: Shaquille O'Neal

#92. I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time. - Author: Gabrielle Union

#93. It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target. - Author: Nick Faldo

#94. While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand there are things I would far rather do than spend time in a kitchen. - Author: Jo Coudert

#95. I think the girls are attracted to me because they can relate to me. The girls are nice when you're in my situation, but since I'm in here [in jail] I spend more time writing to them about the relationship, rather than living it, but there are good friendships formed never-the-less. - Author: Richard Ramirez

#96. Maybe you should spend a little less time with your thing and more with your gun." "Now that sounded dirty." "Good. I hate being crass by accident. - Author: Brandon Sanderson

#97. If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want. - Author: Wendi McLendon-Covey

#98. I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it. - Author: Gary Sinise

#99. I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life. - Author: Peter Landesman

#100. Good stuff gets worse and bad stuff gets better, so you're better off to spend a little time making friends with all of it. - Author: Sara Bareilles