It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. Diogenes Man Time
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway Intelligence
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. Annie Leibovitz
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Abraham Lincoln
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau Anger
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. Horace
