Time Quotes

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

You're born in pain. Pain is what we are in most of the time, and I think that the bigger the pain, the more God you look for.

That was a great period. We were like kings of the jungle then, and we were very close to the Stones.... I spent a lot of time with them, and it was great.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived. It had a lot to do with Yoko showing me that I was still possessed. I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling. I learned everything from her. ... It is a teacher-pupil relationship.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.