It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I start each book when it’s ready and never before.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

God always has patience.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

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

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.