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“Treasure every moment and every breath and you will never miss out on experiencing the seconds, minutes, hours and days of your life. Live!”
Lesego Motsepe (1974–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Berlusconi said that people don't work much in Italy, he didn't realise that since his government came to power, the number of strike hours has increased dramatically.”
Sergio D'Antoni (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are pretty much in the right now, we just expect it to take place in 24 hours. Actually, it just takes place in a slightly longer timeframe. It is going to be grim. We are going to have to adapt.”
Helen Macdonald (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You crawl on your stomach for hours … climbing up yawning abysses (lighted only by an acetylene lamp …) and get knocked on the head by stalactites and on the legs by stalagmites, and in the end arrive at all sorts of wonders; bison modelled in clay, and portraits of sorcerers, and footprints of Magdalenian man.”
Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to cousin Jean, 1921
“The United States, I believe, are under the impression that they are twenty years in advance of this country; whilst, as a matter of actual verifiable fact, of course, they are just about six hours behind it.”
Harold Hobson (1904–1992) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Devil in Woodford Wells (1946), ch. 8
“Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers, We, who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below.”
Charles Cotton (1630–1687) said by 1687 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fire-side, st. 5. Dodsley's Collection (1755) vol. 4
“No prayers or incense rose up in those hours Which grew to be years, and every day came mute Ghosts from the ovens, sifting through crisp air, And settled upon his eyes in a black soot.”
Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!”
Caroline Healey Dall (1822–1912) first seen 1447 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maturin M. Ballou (ed.) Notable Thoughts about Women (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1882) p. 171, no. 1447
“Hungarian minstrels boarded the train at , played vigorously for more than two hours and finished with the , with the chef singing a vociferous solo. The passengers were received by at his new . managed to arrange an exclusive interview with him, which he glowingly recounted in . After the euphoria of the inaugural trip the settled into a regular routine.”
Shirley Sherwood (born 1933) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (188 pages; 1st edition published by in 1983)
“Working for yourself is flexible, you work your own hours, it's a great career and it is a very good earner.”
Hattie Hasan first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hattie Hasan shares her mission of going to schools to talk to girls about learning a trade, and sells the idea of them becoming plumbers. December 28. 2019
“I was never defined by my working hours, I was defined by what I produced. That is what we need and we need to be respectful of the best way people work. I think businesses have to think about the best way to retain talent.”
Nicola Mendelsohn (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you haven’t got a job that is flexible in terms of the hours you can do through the day, or a company that isn’t flexible, then some women won’t be able to work during this three month period [of lockdown].”
Ruby McGregor-Smith (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You come in, you have set hours, but there's flexibility within your working life. It's not like 'Oh my goodness, such and such is not at their desk.' That's just not how we work anymore.”
Emma Grede (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despite the expansion of online shopping, until recently some post offices were still opening from 9am to 5pm, closed half-day Wednesday, closed half-day Saturday, closed all day Sunday. And if you don’t offer the hours customers need, they take their business elsewhere.”
Paula Vennells (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I left two hours later, my overwhelming feeling was one of shame that this monstrous act should have happened in proud, beloved Texas. And for all the stricken Dallas citizens, who had tried so hard, a sense of pity came even before the feeling of grief for the country’s loss. It was evident on many faces that the keen edge of shame cut deep”
Sally Greene wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn't know they lay of the land," quips Bozeman. They wanted her to go back to school to finish her Ph.D. She just looked at them thinking, I have a husband and two small children, how am I going to go back to Vanderbilt four hours away?”
Sylvia Bozeman (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“8 or 9 hours now, but I used to do 10 to 12 when I did more research.”
Patricia Whitelock (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had to work extra hours both day and night to make up.”
Ernestina Edem Appiah (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The appointment of Draghi has had an initial effect. Salvini became a pro-European within 24 hours.”
Andrea Orlando (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Governo Draghi – Fine delle consultazioni. Conte: “No a personalismi, guardiamo al bene del Paese”. M5s: “Saremo leali”. Lega: “Sì senza veti”, Il Fatto Quotidiano, 6 February 2021.
“And today I think Nykaa's 'brand reality' is ahead of its 'commercial reality," she said. "I go to the smallest towns, like two hours away from Manali, and the little girls know Nykaa. So I think the brand is what I really value the most”
Falguni Nayar (born 1963) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Falguni Nayar loves the business of beauty more than beauty products,23 June 2025
“Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, innovators know that there are no shortcuts to hard work.”
Roberto Cingolani (born 1961) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the web-show The Innovation Game; quoted in La fabbrica dell'innovazione, repubblica.it, 10 July 2015
“I had dozens... of hours with... ... a major in the in the 1980s... stationed in Washington D. C. and his colleagues in... New York... were recruiting Donald Trump as an asset...”
Craig Unger (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been challenging running a business as a startup considering the epileptic electricity supply we have to constantly battle with in the country we have to rely on generator and inverter to stay online 24 hours of the day which takes up a huge portion of expenses in terms of fueling, servicing and maintaining the generators and inverters”
Oluwaseun Olaegbe wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The guys in the newsroom are struggling because they spend hours rewriting and editing stories.”
Susan Nsibirwa wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I feel there aren’t enough hours in the day.”
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For example, in the real world when you send an email and get a response in a week, that’s generally fine,” . “But when you’re in an analog and someone doesn’t get back to you within 24 hours, it’s torture. You feel abandoned.”
Kim Binsted wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The duration of the broadcast is 10 hours five in the morning and five in the evening.”
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life has always felt a bit stressful, and anxiety often lurks, looking for an opportunity to make itself known. Knowing this, I have participated in numerous well-being courses and spent many hours training to become a yoga and meditation teacher, as much for myself as for the many children and adults I have taught over the years.”
Tania Murray (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A simpler, more transparent tax code will substantially reduce the estimated 6.1 billion hours and $168 billion that taxpayers spend on return preparation.”
Nina E. Olson wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have this research project going which we call our Never-Ending Language Learner (or NELL for short), and the goal here is to build a program that runs 24 hours a day 7 days a week and everyday it has two things it has to do.”
Tom M. Mitchell (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A representation learning algorithm can discover a good set of features for a simple task in minutes, or for a complex task in hours to months.”
Ian Goodfellow wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Imagine if we can just talk to our computers and have it understand, ‘Please schedule a meeting with Bob for next week.’ Or if each child could have a personalized tutor. Or if self-driving cars could save all of us hours of driving.”
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tourists are coming in and there is a restriction on what vehicles they get in, the tour guides who have to go with them, the drivers must have their 48 hours PCR test before they go with any visitors.”
Lilly Ajarova (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My daughter may be the greatest looking thing on Earth, but you can’t spend 18 hours a day looking at her. It’s also social conditioning that makes you feel that the baby needs you. I figured out that the baby doesn’t even need you. They just need someone to wash them and take care of them”
Aruna Jayanthi (born 1964) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Women should stand up to family, social pressure: Capgemini India CEO,4 November 2013
“During articles I used to win the awards for the most productive employee in my group and billing hours is what counts at a firm like PwC.”
Mary Vilakazi (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I could not gain admission for my first choice program and had to settle for my second choice which was mathematics and economics. Nevertheless, I loved the challenge mathematics presented. I had to spend hours after lectures revising lecture notes and solving exercises. I found this thrilling.”
Angela Tabiri (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The use of ICT and similar technologies can produce a clash with traditional ways of doing things - but one that can be managed. For example, e-learning can be used to enable more study hours for the female child even while at home but does not address the stereotype that girls do not need to be educated - where such is the belief.”
Dorothy Okello wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It doesn’t matter if you have to stand in lines for five or six hours to vote. Stand there.”
Donzaleigh Abernathy (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I won’t specify percentages, but we are aiming beyond previous ambitions, because our people envision more,” he noted. He highlighted Botswana’s immense solar potential, noting that the country ranks third globally for solar radiation exposure, with approximately 3, 200 hours of sunshine annually. “With this resource, there is no reason Botswana cannot become a hub for solar-generated power.”
Ndaba Gaolathe (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are not enough hours in the day to explore the lives of men and women in their daily struggles with poverty, hunger and disease”
Mandla Langa (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the interim, efforts are being made to improve efficiency and extend the operating hours of the border post”
Constantino Chiwenga (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can’t start our day at seven in the morning by consuming alcohol and then you get home at five in the morning,-that’s 22 hours of being on the street drinking alcohol.”
Warren Masemola (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Does Chapo speak in tongues? “I think he has,” [Chapo’s sister] Bernarda told me. By all accounts, he has spent many hours in this church. There’s been some signature Pentecostal healing-hand work, too. “Many brothers who are pastors have laid hands on him and prayed for him, and with a contrite heart, that’s when he cries.”
Phoebe Eaton (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Weaving has been the thread that has held my life together for more than fifty years. One has to fill the minutes, hours, days and years that are given to you with something, and it seems that weaving chose me. In essence, I see my life as the latest iteration in the long line of weavers that stretch back beyond recorded history. I feel blessed to be in this lineage.”
Bhakti Ziek (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't see it as success. For me, it's literally just the 24 hours that is very important to me. And I think when I went into treatment, that was the one thing that I wasn't focused on. I was more focused on what I am doing outside of the game.”
Sinalo Jafta (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“WE ALL GET THE SAME 24 HOURS IN A DAY, JUST GO OUT THERE AND BE GREAT—WHATEVER THAT IS. BE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO, AND STRIVE TO BE BETTER”
Sydney Park (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a good 10 hours in the makeup chair, and then I’d go and do a 12-hour day on set, and the makeup artist, Sarah Rubano, who was incredible, would constantly be touching me up and making sure my contacts were all right and all those sorts of things.”
Mia Goth (born 1993) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her prosthetic makeup for Pearl, Gingold, Michael (14 April 2022). "Exclusive Interview: Mia Goth and Brittany Snow Get Into the Skin of "X"". Rue Morgue.
“we have spent hours circling each other with words-thinly vowelled embraces”
Jenny Bornholdt (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or hogging the warmest cushion in the house. They welcome every pleasurable moment as it unravels and savour it to the full until a butterfly or falling leaf diverts their attention. They don't waste energy counting the number of calories they've consumed or the hours they've frittered away sunbathing.”
Helen Brown (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every story has a lesson and we sit in that theater for two hours waiting for that one line, that one lesson that we take home.”