“A goal completed is a goal completed regardless of the time it takes to complete. Do not focus on the time it will take to complete your goals but rather focus on how to complete your goal.”

“Let time be a motivator to start living your dreams now.”

“You can become talented at anything if you are willing to put in the time and effort. If you want results you must put in the effort.”

“You are not made from your past. You simply exist in this time and only this time. Enjoy the moment. Experience.”

“Don’t wait for someone to come along and change your life. Only you have the ability to change yourself.”

“I suppose you could say these images present a glimpse of the world around me during the last 5 years as well as moments in time for the creatures and nature sharing the same space as me.”

“There’s no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We’re all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy — what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer — in the 1860’s he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don’t have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. (“Gary Shteyngart: Finding ‘Love’ In A Dismal Future”, NPR interview, August 2, 2010)”

“Make time to relax, you are legally entitled to take a break, so what’s stopping you?”

“Be patient my little wild one, wondrous things take time. A pearl is hidden before it’s refined. A diamond’s luster is dull before revealing brilliant magnificent breathtaking shine.”

“What the clock reads is the measure you set”

“Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.”

“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”

“The greatest futility! says the congregator, “The greatest futility! Everything is futile!” What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.”

“As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.”

“When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.”