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34 "Not Enough Time" Quotes

"We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have."

--- Alex Agase

#Time #Too Much #Enough

"The Princess and the Pea?" Gabrielle suggested. "Not enough time," Kat said "Where's Waldo?" Gabrielle went on. "No." Hamish recoiled. "I am still not allowed back in Morocco."

--- Ally Carter

#Said #Stills #Enough

"People spend too much time tasting wine; not enough time drinking it."

--- Andre Tchelistcheff

#People #Too Much #Enough

"Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be."

--- Andy Andrews

#Thinking #Circumstances #Life

"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting."

--- Andy Rooney

#Thinking #Chefs Cooking #Chef

"Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done."

--- Andy Stanley

#Stumble Upon #Too Much #Discipline

"I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies."

--- Ann Brashares

#People #Mean #Understood

"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."

--- Bill Watterson

#Smart #Time #Clever

"It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write."

--- Walter Benjamin

#Know Me #Writing #Village

"One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically "niche" show is that you spend too much time on the "niche" and not enough time on the "show.""

--- Brad Falchuk

#Niche #Too Much #Enough

"There's not enough time to say what I feel."

--- Brenda Weiler

#Feels #Enough #Not Enough Time

"In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role."

--- Chadwick Boseman

#Television #Shooting #Week

"He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think."

--- Tao Lin

#Thinking #Wintertime #Consciousness

"The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the majority. Pointing out the history shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle, one party tends to win the lion`s share of them. With two weeks to Election Day, there`s not enough time for republicans to recover toss-up seats in states where Hillary Clinton is currently leading, considering this, early voting is under way, and [Donald]Trump won`t be any help especially since his campaign doesn`t really have a ground game to speak of."

--- Chris Hayes

#Two Weeks #Election Day #Pointing

"There is not enough time in the day to address all these challenges we face. I pray for wisdom in prioritizing issues and working on the things God would intend, so one day we too will hear those words: "Well done, my good and faithful servant.""

--- Steve Daines

#Prioritize #One Day #Faithful

"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."

--- Stephen Covey

#Life Balance #Too Much #Time Management

"There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time."

--- Craig Stone

#World #Wallowing #Misery

"You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days."

--- Shonda Rhimes

#Realizing #Soul #Commit

"I think really, if I were to defend the K-1 strikers, that it was a pressure of not enough time to re-prepare for a fight and not enough time to repair for a fight as a result of the last show."

--- Shawn Tompkins

#Thinking #Lasts #Fighting

"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation."

--- Sasha Alexander

#Television #Preparation #Actors

"Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!"

--- Dylan Moran

#Please #Get Up #Morning

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

--- Edmund Burke

#Sustainable Living #Green #Charity And Giving

"I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born."

--- Erma Bombeck

#Breathe #Ready #Too Much

"'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'"

--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Said #Time #Red

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

--- Rabindranath Tagore

#Timeliness #Seasons #Inspirational Nature

"But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of."

--- Pia Zadora

#Together #Party #Drink

"We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do."

--- Peace Pilgrim

#Thinking #Stillness #Done

"Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both."

--- Nora Ephron

#Faces #Enough #Going Out

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

--- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#Change #Wasted My Time #Words Of Encouragement

"I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags."

--- Haruki Murakami

#Anthology #Made #Know How

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

--- Henry David Thoreau

#Our Time #Manage #Punctuality

"I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly."

--- Henry Rollins

#Know How #Boiling #Current Events

"I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them."

--- Melina Marchetta

#Enough #Not Enough Time #Not Interested

"I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything."

--- Mary Lynn Rajskub

#Week #Enough #Not Enough Time

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