Is anything more important than time?

Quality time. You spend your time doing things or letting it pass you. Having a good bit of that time doing things that matter or make you happy is more important than the amount you have.

Great pizza makes time stop.

Time is just an invisible vessel which holds everything else.

Food, shelter.

Freewill.

Health
Peace
Multiple orgasms
Wearing a peasant dress without any undergarments
Chocolate

@Pattt_Melt covered in chocolate having multiple orgasms without any undergarments.

Edit: Oh yeah, the peasant dress too!

Second edit: Might as well throw in peace and health!

HUMOR!

“Is anything more important than time?”

Yes, everything. Time barely even exists.

I have seen the case made that time is the measure of the value of everything. The true cost of an item is the amount of time it takes for you to earn the price of the object. Love is ultimately measured in the amount of time we devote to someone or something. We cannot love everyone equally, because we only have a finite amount of time. I think the argument makes some good points, but the intensity of the joy we are able to feel does not translate into time.

Since “Time is money” I am going to guess MONEY?

Just about everything trumps time in my opinion. Just think if that’s all you had. How horrible would that be?

Prisoners have all the time in the world, and many would trade it for a little bit of freedom.

Focus on time and you won’t be in the present, but that is all anyone really has.

There is probably truth in this statement. We take time for granted.

It takes having a time limit issued before it becomes precious.

Health, mental ability, love

It matters most when it’s running out.

No time is more important than time. lol

How you put the limited time you have to use?

Time is passing. People are often stressed out because of this four letter world. We fail to enjoy the moment because we are too worried with the future. That’s how powerful time can influence our lives.

I’d say health. I’ve been stuck on the sofa or on crutches since mid-January. Time is going slowly. I’d trade some time for a knee the works.

Health.

I’ve never heard “time is the essence.” Where is that from? What exactly does it mean?

There is a legal phrase “time is of the essence.”

^^ my bad.. forgot to add it.

“Time is of the essence” is a phrase that reinforces dates set forth by a contract are to be adhered to, or there is a breach of contract. It’s almost universally used in real estate contracts, because most real estate contracts have many hoops to go through from the time of signing the sales contract to the closing. Offers, counter offers, inspections, mortgage, approval, all usually have dates they must be completed by. It can be used in other contracts too, real estate is just one example. Some contracts can just hang out there for a long time and still be valid even if it takes all parties a while to sign, or to perform what’s expected within the contract.

For me—time is a measurement, but what we do within that time, who we do it with, and how it is spent is more important. It can be a moment or a year—but it’s still a measurement.

What I despise, is how people measure the quality of others, as people, by time.

As someone with a brain injury that affects my perception of time, and as someone who studies linguistics of world languages (which vary in their perception of time), I’ve learned that TIME as a concept—is fluid, even though people think it’s an unquestioned, established, and concrete concept.

Punctuality is almost a religion to some people, and that’s a very Eurocentric concept—and they do punish others for not following the sanctity of their view of time…

So, Time….. it’s a social construct. What we DO is more important.

@linguaphile I completely understand your idea about punctuality being Eurocentric. I moved to Norway from New Zealand. Folks in New Zealand were pretty easy going. If you came in early and started early you could leave a bit early if the place was empty and it wasn’t your turn to lock up. As long as the work was done, nobody watched the clock to the very minute. Here, they are completely militant about it. Even if you regularly start early, you are not allowed to leave until the clock hits the mark.

@linguaphile GA. My husband is extremely regimented about time, and it wasn’t a good fit for him in his home country where it tends to be more relaxed. Cultural differences in time are very interesting.

I tend to be a little more relaxed about it, and to @cazzie‘s example, I prefer to work with some flexibility where I can shift my hours earlier or later. Even when I work the same amount of hours, if it’s during the hours of the day I prefer to work, it makes a world of difference regarding me feeling like I am giving up my personal time for work.

sex.

It’s good to know that there are people who have flexible time. Most of the people I know are always in the rush. Their lives are bounded by deadlines and stuff.