Daniel Handler Quotes

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

Unfortunately, no matter how much time you get, you can always use more.

The only thing I don't have is enough time.

You know, I wish I had more time in the week.

Unfortunately, life unfolds as it does, and you can't do everything at the same time, and you can't do some things if you can't spend the time.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

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

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

Because you have very limited time and you have to be very judicious and wise about how you spend it. But otherwise, I've always been - ever since I was a kid, I've always been coming up with ideas. So I'm able to come up with crazy ideas twice for two collections! It's fun.