Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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.

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.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

I just don’t have time to get old!

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

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.

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.

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

Energy begets energy.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Well begun is half done.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

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.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Friends are thieves of time.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

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.

I like to work and am a focused person.

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.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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

Always do whatever’s next.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Life well spent is long.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.