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.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

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

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Time discovers truth.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

I like to work and am a focused person.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

The Internet is a big distraction.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

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.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.