You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.
Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills, and talents.
Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement
There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason for locking up from us all the avenues of knowledge, is the fear of our excelling them in it. (...) Had we the same advantages of study allowed us which the Men have, there is no room to doubt but we should at least keep pace with them in the sciences, and every useful knowledge. It can only then be a mean dastardly jealousy in them to exclude us from those advantages, in which we have so natural a right to emulate them.
Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.
The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.