"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."

Time, Work, Job

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"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."

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"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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"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

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"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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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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Explore more quotes by Sharon Olds

"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."

Experience, Beginning, Poems

"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself."

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"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."

Time, Work, Job

"I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type."

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"When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time."

Time,

"My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience."

Experience, People, Care, Poems

"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"

Drink, Coffee, Smoking

"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."

Expression, Clarity, Spirits, Visions

"Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in."

Life, Dance, Metaphor, Years

"This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force."

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