Whenever we feel caught on the financial treadmill, it’s time to remember our freedom of choice, and to recognize that we do choose.
-Peggy Kagan
Tag: time
“…wonderous days, surprising days” #10
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still had to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life will begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
-Bette Howland
“…wonderous days, surprising days” #14
Only by slowing down and pruning our schedules can we reclaim the most valuable thing we own: our time.
-Ralph Keyes
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #52
If you’re there before it’s over, you’re on time.
-Mayor James J. Walker
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #60
Be of good courage, all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #61
You would do well to budget your time as follows: one-half in work… one fourth in social pastimes with others… and one fourth as an interested, pleased observer of life.
-William B. Terhune
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #81
Experienced time occurs when we are able to stop worrying about the past and the future long enough to live for a moment in the present, to feel and think and savor. It is this kind of time we feel lacking in our lives.
-Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #97
Go ahead with your life, your plans, your preparation, as fully as you can. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
-Richard L. Evans
“Ideas won’t keep…” #15
For maximum attention, it’s hard to beat a good, big mistake.
-David D. Hewitt
Write about a time you got maximum attention this way, or invent a story about how someone else did.
“Ideas won’t keep…” #33
Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.
-Chinese proverb
Don’t fish for strawberries at the bottom of the sea.
Anonymous
Whether we want love, a kind word, an honest answer, help, or even a special tool, we should look for it in likely places. If we look in unlikely places, we waste a lot of time and just end up, hurt and disappointed, without finding what we want.
Have you ever “climbed a tree to look for fish”? What did you learn? Where will you look next time?