"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."

Time, Optimism, Pessimism, Deals

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"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"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

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"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

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"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

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

"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

Time, Today, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Time, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

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"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

Thought, Action, Energy, Loss

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

Death, Life, Men, Awareness

"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."

Time, Optimism, Pessimism, Deals

"If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it."

Fight, Nations, United

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

Compassion, Indifference

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

Education, People, Failure, Destiny

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."

Health, Science, Answers, Healing

"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

Life, Importance, Man, Respect

"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."

Dream, Dreams, People

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

Education, Idea, Difference, May