There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I don’t do meetings.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Time is money.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Better never than late.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

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