I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Time is money.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Time is bunk.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

An index is a great leveller.