Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

There is time in life for everything.

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.