Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
Interpretation
Time is a universal resource that everyone has equally, regardless of their circumstances.
This quote by Denis Waitley emphasizes the idea that time is equally allocated to all individuals. Regardless of oneβs status or wealth, every person has the same 24 hours in a day, and how one utilizes that time determines their level of success and fulfillment. It serves as a reminder that it is not the quantity of time, but rather how we manage and prioritize it, that impacts our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about productivity, one might say, 'Remember, time is an equal opportunity employer.'
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.
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