Missing Quotes

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

You can miss a person you've never known.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

What's a star when his most important fan is missing?

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

Your absence has gone through me

If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.

I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

… conspicuous by his absence.

Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

You can't miss what you never had.