Quotes about time

For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent – and writing in general – is not tangible. There’s no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

Jay-Z

We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one day at a time. Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must be cut and set with skill, first one piece, then another.

Orison Swett Marden

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I don’t seem to require a lot of sleep. I just – if I get four, five good hours, I’m fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There’s a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

Betty White

During the same years that our careers demanded maximum time investment, our biology demanded that we have children.

Sheryl Sandberg

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.

Nicholas Sparks

I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man’s-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.

David Bowie

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

Mark Wahlberg

I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it’s fast, I go fast.

Sugar Ray Leonard

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski