Jay-Z Quotes

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

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

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

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

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

One must work with time and not against it.

I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

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

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

What will you do with the time you have left?

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.