Bernard Berenson Quotes

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Remember that lost time does not return.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.