I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

Time is money.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

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

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

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

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.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

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 don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

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.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

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

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

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

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

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.

Short cuts make long delays.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

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.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.