Metaphors We Live By
Once time is a resource to be used, you start to feel pressure, whether from external forces or from yourself, to use it well, and to berate yourself when you feel you’ve wasted it.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Time is our most valuable possession. Spend it wisely and focus your efforts on living a virtuous life that contributes to a just, equitable society.
Jason Hemlock • Stoicism: How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness
As the writer David Cain points out, we never have time in the same sense that we have the cash in our wallets or the shoes on our feet. When we claim that we have time, what we really mean is that we expect it. “We assume we have three hours or three days to do something,” Cain writes, “but it never actually comes into our possession.” Any number ... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing.”
Mason Currey • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Once time is a resource to be used, you start to feel pressure, whether from external forces or from yourself, to use it well, and to berate yourself when you feel you’ve wasted it.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
I’ve been thinking about the ways that capitalism organizes time. Notice its undercurrents in language: “How are you spending your time?” “Don’t waste your time.” “Let’s save time and go this way.”