Peter Zumthor Quotes

You only have so much time in the day, and you only have so many working years. Where do you want to invest that life?

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.

What's the average time you live on earth - like 60, 65 years? Basketball's gonna take up half of it. I'd like to be successful in the other half, too.

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

I don't have spare time.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

Time is the most important thing to me - how can you do all the things you want to do with such limited time… I'm hoping science of life extension makes progress.

The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.

The most precious resource we have is time.

I've told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we're wasting people's time.

With scheduling and the way projects come up, I take the first thing that interests me and that moves me. If it's going to be fun, if I'm going to have a good time, and I'm going to enjoy the people I'm with, then that's a good enough reason to do it.

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.