Cyril Joad Quotes

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

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

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time... I don't want to just sit on my phone for hours.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

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

Economy is the thief of time.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

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.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

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

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

You only have so much time in a day.