temporal organization Quotes

The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.