About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

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

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I have wasted my hours.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

Beware the hobby that eats.

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

A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that’s also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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.

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

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

He that rises late must trot all day.

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?

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

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

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The Internet is a big distraction.

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

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

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!

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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.

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.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.