"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time, a man of talent tries to 'use' it."

Time, Talent, Ordinary, Values

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"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time, a man of talent tries to 'use' it."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Thought, Thoughts, Aspirations, Man, Will

"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

Sacrifice, Gain, Order, Pain

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

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"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."

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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Man, Men, Eagles, Solitude

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

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"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."

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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

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"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."

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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

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