Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I often work by avoidance.

Time is the least thing we have of.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

Friends are thieves of time.

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

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.

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.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

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.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

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

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

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

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

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

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

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

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

I just don’t have time to get old!

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

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.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

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!

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

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.

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.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

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

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

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

Before beginning, plan carefully.

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

I have wasted my hours.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

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

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

Better never than late.

Time is bunk.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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?‘

There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

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

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.

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

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