Time Control Quotes

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

I have already bent time to my will.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I'd like to make time slow down.

Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'

Let's stop the startwatch.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if I stopped everything else, spent months working just on chess, for a long match against most of the top players, a classical match, six hours, say, I don't stand a chance. I have a better chance in shorter matches. Rapid is 25 minutes, or blitz events where you have five minutes to make a move, or bullet games, where it is one minute. For blitz, five-minutes chess, I would be top ten, top five. But longer games, no chance.

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.