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.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

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.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

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.

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

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Time is bunk.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

He that rises late must trot all day.

I always have to be writing.

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.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

We must use time creatively.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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 grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Study men, not historians.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

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

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I like to work.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.