Temporal Influence Quotes

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

Time will change who is in power.

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

The longer you experience a scene, you tend to accept what's going on.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.