Joseph Mitchell Quotes

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get caught up in a race against the clock, feeling like there's never enough time. We say things like "Time is flying," "Time is running out," or "There are never enough hours in the day."

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time