Benjamin Hoff Quotes

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.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

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

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

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.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

You only have so much time in a day.

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

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.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

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

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

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 .

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.

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

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.

I ain't got time to bleed.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

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