I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
Ted TurnerRead
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
Interpretation
Life is finite, and no amount of wealth can extend it.
Ted Turner's quote emphasizes the ephemeral nature of life, suggesting that when our time is over, it cannot be altered or purchased back, regardless of one's financial status. This serves as a poignant reminder to value time and the moments we have rather than focusing solely on accumulating wealth.
In practice
This quote can be used as a reminder in a speech about prioritizing time over money.
I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.
I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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