Justin Vernon Quotes

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

Infinite patience produces immediate results.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.

One must work with time and not against it.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

Ka works and the world moves on.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

I wouldn't say that I have overcome opposition so much as I have tried to understand it. The lash of judgment carries a wounding sting, and there's a deeply instinctual tendency to want to respond in kind. I am not proud that my thoughts were blackened with vile opinions about the nature of those who were attacking me.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember