Make every second count
ROBERT W. BLY
“I am always quarrelling with time! It is so short
to do something and so long to do nothing.”
- Queen Charlotte, Heir to the British throne(1796-1817)
“Time is a precious possession and I attempt to make the
most of it by n ot wasting it, for it is irreplaceable.”
- Stanley Marcus, Miding the Store
(University of N. Texas Press, 1998)
“We’re moving to a culture where everything moves
faster, where no one has any time, where we measure
out our days not in coffee spoons but in
e-mails, beeper buzzes, timed phone calls, children’s
scheduled play dates, and vacations with cells phones
and laptops at hand.”
-
Esther Dyson, author of
Release 2.0
(Broadway Books, 1997)
“Time eventually humiliates us all.”
-Robert X. Cringely, author of Accidental Empires
(Harper Business, 1996)
“The day is short, and the work is great.”
-Talmud, Ethics of the Fathers)
“Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be
learned in the classroom.”
-J.Paul Getty, American business executive
“Life is tough; it takes a lot of your time.”
-Sean Morey, Comedienne
“Time is as elusive as a thief, silent as death.”
-Mumia Abu-Jamal
“We are now so preoccupied with keeping up with the
bombardment of new facts, new developments, and new
points of view that we have no time to listen to the past,
or reflect on even the most recent history, much less to
make a judicious reckoning of its significance.”
-Regis McKenna, public relations specialist
“The march of time has been replaced by the blitz of time,
and no one, short of a hermit, can escape the pace
without some sort of defensive personal philosophy.”
-Ralph Nader, consumer advocate