Quotes about time from interviews with remarkable people: how fast life passes, what to spend it on and how the view of time changes with age.
Change is the only constant. We all must change or die.
A physicist takes time apart piece by piece and argues that the single, forward-flowing time we experience most likely does not exist at the level of fundamental reality at all.
A quiet, exact portrait of how grown children drift from their parents even while still loving them.
Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.
a saga of the Buendía family in which magical realism isn't decoration but a way of showing how a country's and a family's history loop, repeating the same mistakes under new names.
Tarkovsky's debut feature about a boy serving as a scout on the front line, where childhood exists only in the character's dreams — as the gap between who he might have become and who the war made him.
I spent so much time searching for who I was that I almost missed my life.
A private notebook a Roman emperor kept to talk himself out of fear, vanity, and complaint — not a treatise for readers, but a tool he built to keep doing his job calmly.
A love letter to cinema itself, told through the friendship of a boy and an old projectionist in a small Sicilian town — a film about how we're shaped not only by the people around us but by the place where we first…
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. So live fully.
A philosopher uses Proust's novel not as a text to analyze but as an occasion to argue that a person is never simply born finished — selfhood and understanding have to be produced anew, by effort, or lived experience…
An animated film about a brother and sister left without parents in the war's final months — a study of what keeps two people holding onto each other when everything else collapses, made without a single frame that…
The eighties were a time of change. The world was changing, and my songs changed with it.
A chronicle of the year following her husband's sudden death — a writer's attempt to describe how grief actually works from the inside, against every cultural cliché about how mourning is supposed to look.
A film about how a single evening of talk with a stranger can carry as much weight as years of shared life — it just measures time differently.
Every day is a new chance to create something wonderful.
A practical guide by Intel's former CEO that treats managing people as an engineering discipline: how to measure a team's output, run meetings and one-on-ones, and why a manager's job is measured by leverage rather…
Linklater shot this film over twelve real years with the same actor, so the growing up on screen isn't makeup or a montage trick — it's literally elapsed time.
I wanted to leave while I could still give my best. It's about dignity and respect for your audience.
A manifesto arguing that sustained, undistracted concentration is becoming a rare and increasingly valuable skill in an economy of constant notifications — and that it, not multitasking, is what produces work that…
Footage shot inside the Chauvet Cave, accessible to only a handful of scientists a year — a film that stages an encounter with thirty-two-thousand-year-old drawings as though its director cannot quite believe what he…
Life is about the journey, not the destination. Enjoy the ride.
A compact treatise arguing that executive effectiveness is not a gift or a matter of charisma but a learnable set of habits centered on how one handles time, contribution and the quality of decisions.
When you look back, you see how the dots connect.
An attempt to explain, without equations, where the universe came from, what time actually is, and why physics still lacks the single theory needed to tie it all together.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
I was so young when I played Hannibal. Now I look at that role very differently.
Time is the one thing we all have, and it's the most valuable. In cinema, we can manipulate time in ways that reality doesn't allow.
At 90, I still want to write music, still want to discover something new. Music is my language, my life. It does not age; it is eternal.
When I retire from boxing, I'll get ready to meet God — and dedicate my life to helping as many people as I can.
Youth is so bright and yet so fragile at the same time. I film it because I know: this is a moment that will never return.
Time is not absolute. It is warped by massive objects and moves at different rates in different places
Memories are not the past. They are living material from which I create films. They breathe, they wound, they heal.
When you look at the stars, you are looking into the past
I keep everything — every photo, every note. Cinema is built from fragments of memory that we collect over years.
Nothing is as deep as time. It is the greatest mystery of physics.
Time is the dimension that enables change. Without time, there would be no becoming.
Time may not be fundamental; it could be an emergent phenomenon from a deeper reality
The longer we wait, the harder it becomes to solve problems. Climate change, disease, poverty—we need solutions now.
Entropy is the arrow of time. It shows why the past is different from the future.
Time is one of the deepest mysteries of physics. Perhaps it doesn't exist at a fundamental level.
The future is not predetermined; it emerges from quantum possibilities.
You can have time without change, but you cannot have change without time.
Amazon thinks 10 years ahead. We're willing to invest today to create value years into the future.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
It's harder for young people now. But history shows opportunities always exist for those willing to learn and work.
When you achieve your goal, a new chapter begins. It's important to stay true to your principles and find new purpose.
We need a long-term perspective and willingness to invest. Great things take time and patience.
The biggest mistake is you don't move fast enough.
The present moment is all we have. Everything else is memory or imagination.