I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

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.

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

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

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.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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.

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

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

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

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.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

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.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I don’t do meetings.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

Friends are thieves of time.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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.

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.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

We must use time creatively.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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.

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.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.