Gabrielle Roy Quotes

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

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

I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

Time is money.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel.

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.

And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.