Quotes about "Time & Aging"

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. ”

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. ”

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics. ”

I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited me to turn my mind to dramatical composition. It was, indeed, the first amusement of my thoughts in my school-boy cell. ”

Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.' ”

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. ”

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. ”

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment. ”

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. ”

The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school. ”