The Price of Time Quotes

“Satisfaction. The satisfaction that comes from achievement. From having worked and produced and accomplished. Adults need it the way babies need milk. And like milk, satisfaction has a shelf life. People can feed off past accomplishments for a couple of weeks, but their mood starts to sour after that. “I have developed the theory that adults wean themselves off the need to achieve as they move beyond middle age. By the time they’re seniors, they can sustain a positive attitude off the energy of past accomplishments. But as Immortals, we’re stuck with the achievement appetite of youth.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“don’t think we’re supposed to be happy. I mean the big us, humans. I think we’re supposed to struggle. I think that’s because there’s something more important to our psyche than hedonistic happiness.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Why was she thinking about such silly stuff at a time like this? She knew the answer. Her mind was spinning its tires, looking for traction on friendly ground.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Some of us need to risk dying in order to feel like we’re living.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Immortality?” “Yeah. It looks like the solution to all your problems, the thing that will bring you everlasting happiness. Until you get it. Then your mind adapts and resets, and you find yourself faced with a new and equally compelling set of wants and wishes.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“They say pressure is the first ingredient for making mistakes.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“You and I will never know if The Fountain of Youth exists. There is one simple reason for this. Revealing such a grand discovery would be foolish—and no fool is going to find it.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“I think that’s because there’s something more important to our psyche than hedonistic happiness.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Satisfaction. The satisfaction that comes from achievement. From having worked and produced and accomplished. Adults need it the way babies need milk. And like milk, satisfaction has a shelf life. People can feed off past accomplishments for a couple of weeks, but their mood starts to sour after that.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“What was the relation between high-fructose corn syrup and maple syrup? Something analogous to second cousins thrice removed? Why was she thinking about such silly stuff at a time like this?”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Ries knew that their selection was a simple preference for soft fatty tissue, but as he stood there staring in the dawning light, it sure seemed like a message from God. David”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“this”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“less.” David bowed his head.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“brown hair, bright brown soulful eyes, and one of those trendy barely beards. He had always appreciated the association with the Savior and would hate to give it up, even if only in his own mind, because of a clashing career choice. The server reappeared with a frosty mug in each hand. “Two Fearless beers.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“brown hair, bright brown soulful eyes, and one of those trendy barely beards. He had always appreciated the association with the Savior and would hate to give it up, even if only in his own mind, because of a clashing career choice. The server reappeared with a frosty mug in each hand. “Two Fearless beers.” “We’re going to go with large filets,” Tom said with the satisfaction of a man on an unconstrained expense account. “Medium-rare for mine. And a Caesar salad to start.” “Same here,” Lars said. Carla nodded without taking notes, then disappeared. Tom resumed his pitch while Lars relaxed. “You’re an honors graduate from”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“By internalizing the fact that his entire life would almost certainly be entirely inconsequential, Ries never ever had to worry. And when you didn’t worry, you didn’t age.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“FOXY’S FAMOUS CHEESEBURGERS were calling Lars as the Sirens had Ulysses, and fate was not on his side. The bastards in the booths on both sides had”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“FOXY’S FAMOUS CHEESEBURGERS were calling Lars as the Sirens had Ulysses, and fate was not on his side. The bastards in the booths on both sides had ordered and received the house specialty, complete with curly fries that still steamed a salty fragrance. And just to rub it in, one had added a milkshake, the other a root beer float.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“FOXY’S FAMOUS CHEESEBURGERS”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. That was back in the Cold War days when, “We learned Russian so you didn't have to,” something he did at the Presidio of Monterey alongside Recon Marines and Navy SEALs. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim switched from espionage to arbitrage. Armed with a Wharton MBA rather than a Colt M16, he moved to Moscow in the midst of Perestroika. There, he led prominent multinational medical companies, worked with cosmonauts on the MIR Space Station (from Earth, alas), chaired the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, and helped write Russia’s first law on healthcare. Moving to Brussels during the formation of the EU, Tim ran Europe, Middle East and Africa for a Johnson & Johnson company and traveled like a character in a Robert Ludlum novel. He eventually landed in Silicon Valley, where he launched new medical technologies as a startup CEO. In his free time, Tim has climbed the peaks of Mount Olympus, hang glided from the cliffs of Rio de Janeiro, and ballooned over Belgium. He earned scuba certification in Turkey, learned to ski in Slovenia, and ran the Serengeti with a Maasai warrior. He acted on stage in Portugal, taught negotiations in Germany, and chaired a healthcare conference in Holland. Tim studied psychology in France, radiology in England, and philosophy in Greece. He has enjoyed ballet at the Bolshoi, the opera on Lake Como, and the symphony in Vienna. He’s been a marathoner, paratrooper, triathlete, and yogi.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“minute to find. Even though German cars were above”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“As her warm, soft fingers took hold of the cold, hard steel,”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“While most people enjoy a good hamburger, few want to pet the cow.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Permanent bonds required similar preferences and perspectives, plus some everyday chemistry.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Are you in better spirits than you were before I put Eos in your veins? Is that additional glee enough to outweigh the joy you took from the world when you replaced a fellow human being?”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“filled with irony and fenced by incongruity.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“company rather than a lifestyle.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“Satisfaction. The satisfaction that comes from achievement. From having worked and produced and accomplished. Adults need it the way babies need milk.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time

“I don’t think we’re supposed to be happy. I mean the big us, humans. I think we’re supposed to struggle. I think that’s because there’s something more important to our psyche than hedonistic happiness.”
― Tim Tigner, The Price of Time