Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.