Top 100 You Don't Have Time Quotes
#1. Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.
Susan Sontag
#2. If you don't have time for your life, what's the point of it all?
Cheryl Richardson
#3. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.
Liza Minnelli
#4. You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.
Dick Cheney
#5. Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ... "
"Life should be more than keeping busy."
"Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not.
Judy Blume
#6. So you don't have time for concealer, you have time for powder for when you start crying later about how some boy doesn't like you.
Jenna Marbles
#7. Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we're not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don't have time for drama.
Brendon Burchard
#8. It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.
Rick Bragg
#9. You check out the cover, you check out the backward, you check out the author, you check out the tittle, you check out the content fast... few pages from there and there... ANd then judge... if you don't like it, skip it. You don't have time to check out the bullshit!
Deyth Banger
#10. When you work, you don't have time to do anything stupid. When you work ten hours a day, you forget everything. We have to forget. There is no looking back, only forward." In
Barbara Demick
#11. If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King
#12. When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.
Hillary Clinton
#13. Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have time.
Dave Thomas
#14. I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a ... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
Gale Gordon
#15. In the rush of life, it is quite easy to forget what's important. As cliche as this is, it's easy to take life for granted when you don't have time to focus properly. It is only when life diverts from the 'plan' that we suddenly take time to see what is really important.
Leigh Hershkovich
#16. Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought.
David Allen
#17. You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.
Chasey Lain
#18. Working on a set and working with actors, that's all the same. The moment you're doing it and you're in the moment, you don't have time to think about it. You just have to make it as good as you possibly can on the moment.
Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.
#19. If you're cooking for a woman, make a good risotto and a salad. If you don't have time to make desert you can go and buy some macaroons to have afterwards.
Wolfgang Puck
#20. Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#21. I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
Callie Khouri
#22. Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.
Bryant H. McGill
#23. Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Joel Osteen
#24. When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.
Billy Collins
#25. You don't have time to chitty-chat with loose women. We have work to do. And you have to save humanity. That's a lot of shit to get done.
Peter Bognanni
#26. You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
Ann Brashares
#27. I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think.
Melina Marchetta
#28. Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.
Dries Van Noten
#29. When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
Josh Gad
#30. Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.
Erin Heatherton
#31. If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?
Zig Ziglar
#32. People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.
John Cage
#33. Music? Music is life! It's physical emotion - you can touch it! It's neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it's boring? You don't have time for it?
Isaac Marion
#34. Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
W. Edwards Deming
#35. It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.
Bill Sharman
#36. If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.
Matthew Kelly
#37. If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#38. If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
Tim Ferriss
#39. ... saying that you don't have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don't have time to stop for gas because you're too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you. - The Monk who sold his Ferrari
Robin S. Sharma
#40. As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
Colin Baker
#41. I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.
Gene Simmons
#42. Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.
Claire Denis
#43. If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky
#45. If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day.
Deepak Chopra
#46. When you don't have time to be afraid, I guess it's easy to be brave.
Maggie Stiefvater
#48. My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.
Sara Bareilles
#49. You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.
Curtis Stone
#51. If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.
Mother Teresa
#52. If you're always busy judging then you don't have time to love
Unknown
#53. A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.
Leo Beenhakker
#54. When you love, especially with your heart, it comes upon you so fast, you don't have time to resist.
Jennifer Ashley
#55. I really don't worry about that anymore. When you're dying, you don't have time for that junk. The shit people did to you? It's over.
Bill Konigsberg
#56. I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.
William J. Clinton
#57. All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.
Oprah Winfrey
#58. Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don't have time to criticize others.
Jim Rohn
#59. I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.
Tom Noonan
#60. It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses.
Deyth Banger
#61. The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.
John Wooden
#62. Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time ... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'
Harold B. Lee
#63. If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today
Amit Abraham
#64. There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'
Lou Boudreau
#65. Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.
Viswanathan Anand
#66. If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
John Wooden
#67. That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.
LeVar Burton
#68. If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.
Tim Ferriss
#69. Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.
James Hillman
#70. Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.
Joel Osteen
#71. Remember the time to relax is when you don't have time to relax.
Sidney Harris
#72. If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things
Richard Branson
#73. You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.
Logan Mankins
#74. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
Andy Serkis
#75. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
Mark Helprin
#76. No purchase is so urgent, no bargain so rare, that you don't have time to research it thoroughly, despite what they might have you believe. This applies, in particular, to infomercials that urge you to 'Call now, while supplies last,' or 'Call in the next 10 minutes for a free gift.'
Jean Chatzky
#77. When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.
Mark Miller
#78. Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.
Gracie Allen
#79. If you don't have time to do it right, do you have time to do it over?
J.T. McFarland
#80. In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.
Virat Kohli
#81. Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.
Tama J. Kieves
#82. Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#83. If you don't have time to do a job right, you're going to have to make time to do it over.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#84. You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.
Janet Echelman
#85. If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King
#86. When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book "Lothaire")
Kresley Cole
#87. I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.
Cherry Jones
#88. Today i want to talk to you, and you don't have time. Tomorrow you would desperately want to talk to me and I won't be around
Kunal Bhardwaj
#89. When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
Ernie J Zelinski
#90. I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.
Leah Chase
#91. If you're closing in on age 62 and intend to apply for a former spouse's Social Security benefit, don't remarry. You have to be single at the time you apply.
Jean Chatzky
#92. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
Nora Roberts
#93. Women don't have a say in my house. But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#94. I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and children, to absorb your grief, to hold on to you. This is when you pay, and pay and pay, for pretending that you don't need anybody.
Rick Bragg
#95. Don't you see, Delilah?" she asked. "I need to wrap up this mess before anyone else gets hurt. I can do it. I know I can. But we have to leave now, while there's still time.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#96. Family is everything!" he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. "If you don't have family, what do you have?
Sonal Panse
#97. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.
Robin Hoyle
#98. You want me to invite him to dinner."
"I want you to invite him to dinner," she agreed.
"You know," he said, "most gay men don't have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives."
"That's probably true," she said. "You're one of the lucky ones.
Matthew Haldeman-Time
#99. Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.
Chloe Thurlow
#100. You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
Paul Auster
