Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

Our costliest expenditure is time.

Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

Focusing is about saying No.

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.