We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gonna, kinda get around to."
Edward Cole (Nicholson): Only successful marriage I had was me and my work. I started making money when I was 16, and that was that. I never stopped. Carter Chambers (Freeman): I'll be damned. I wanted to be a history professor. Edward Cole (Nicholson): Nobody's perfect. Carter Chambers (Freeman): I made it through two months of City College before Virginia gave me the news. And then...you know; young, black, broke, baby on the way. Take the first decent job that comes along. I always meant to go back. Forty-five years goes by pretty fast. Edward Cole (Nicholson): Like smoke through a keyhole.
As a little kid a single day can last forever. As a teenager, you can live what feels like a whole lifetime in a single summer. Your 20's stretch on and on and on. And then suddenly you can't believe you're somehow 40. And the pace only picks up from there.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
...what invading foeman could never do, the silent artillery of time has done...
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one’s lifespan, it is a part of one’s life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action devoted to a value are the currency with which one pays for the enjoyment one receives from it.
In this latter scenario, the planets would be much closer to the black hole, each completing an orbit in just about 9 hours. This means they would orbit at extraordinary speeds — about 10 percent of the speed of light. According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, time would appear to move noticeably more slowly the closer one gets to the speed of light, so "two babies born at the same instant on different rings would age at slightly different rates," Raymond said. "The baby on the inner ring would age slightly more slowly."
Time is a guideline that can help us coordinate behavior, or provide some direction. However, when we use it as a context-free standard by which to judge our worth or well-being, it pushes our very lives—and the unexpected grief and growth, joy, and loss that it means to be human—into the margins.
We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as our commonalities.
Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia—even during times of stress and fatigue. Because they unnecessarily complicate their lives, they often feel increased frustration, diminished joy, and too little sense of meaning in their lives.
“Time (is) a fabric; the instant called now (is) only a thread.”
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
I'm often extremely busy, and yet I'm wasting time. How about you? Other times I can be relaxing, thinking and feeling, pondering - and I'm using time very, very well! I don't want to mistake busyness for being effective or using time well. More busyness is not evidence that I'm good at using my time.
We read in 2 Nephi: “Wo unto him that has the law given, … that wasteth the days of his probation” (2 Ne. 9:27). How does one waste the days of his or her probation? Turning to sin is surely part of it, but there is another, more subtle way, a way that may not seem evil at all. In the Doctrine and Covenants the Lord gave a similar warning in these words: “Thou shalt not idle away thy time, neither shalt thou bury thy talent that it may not be known” (D&C 60:13). Why would I speak of that with you? Because one of the ways Satan lessens your effectiveness and weakens your spiritual strength is by encouraging you to spend large blocks of your time doing things that matter very little. I speak of such things as sitting for hours on end watching television or videos, playing video games night in and night out, surfing the Internet, or devoting huge blocks of time to sports, games, or other recreational activities.
...one of the ways Satan lessens your effectiveness and weakens your spiritual strength is by encouraging you to spend large blocks of your time doing things that matter very little.
Eventually, the veil that now encloses us will be no more. Neither will time. (D&C 84:100.) Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time—because we belong to eternity. Time, as much as any one thing, whispers to us that we are strangers here.
As the Lord’s servant, I promise you that as you are faithful to Jesus Christ and your covenants, you will receive compensating blessings in this life and your righteous desires in the eternal time line of the Lord.17 There can be happiness in the journey of mortality even when all of our righteous hopes are not realized.18
Modern time management ignores the fact that the world is bursting with wonder—and that experiencing more of that wonder may come at the cost of productivity.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Time is a waste of money.
Time must be explicitly managed, like money...Ask yourself if you are spending your time on the right things. Don't invest time on irrelevant details. It doesn't matter how well you polish the underside of the banister.
Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong.
Maybe we don’t always feel up to the challenge. But our Heavenly Father sees us as fearless builders of His kingdom. That is why He sent us here during this most decisive time in the world’s history. This is our time! Listen to what President Russell M. Nelson said shortly after becoming President of the Church: “Our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, will perform some of His mightiest works between now and when He comes again. We will see miraculous indications that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, preside over this Church in majesty and glory”
Father time always wins. But he can be fickle — indeed unfair and even cruel — sometimes ending life at birth or soon thereafter while, at other times, waiting a century or so before paying a visit. To date, I’ve been very lucky, but, before long, he will get around to me.
What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
A person who has not done one half day's work by ten o'clock, runs the a chance of leaving the other half undone.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishishable of all possessions.
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end.
You can't make quality time, you can only make time and it becomes quality.
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gonna, kinda get around to."
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