Passenger Quotes

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

TV is all about schedule and budget, and you're always fighting that.

You always need enough results to buy you time to do things over a longer period of time.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something that matters to us. We're dealing with scarcity. I mean, if you're dating one person, at the very least, you don't have as much time to date another person. And you may well find that you can only date one person at a time.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

There were obvious budgetary and time constraint differences. With Jamie Marks is Dead, we were operating on a pretty small finance level. So it was definitely run-and-gun, 16-hour days, every day. I would come back, and I was so exhausted I would fall asleep in my clothes. Obviously, with The Giver we had a little bit more time to take the full three months. So that was different, but in both there was still a creative environment, and by that I mean that it was still collaborative, performance was still valued, and it wasn't lost in the money.

Economy is the thief of time.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

I am busy right now with my family, let alone all my other projects. It's an opportunity if it presents itself.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.