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

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

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.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

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

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

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

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

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

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.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Well begun is half done.

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

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

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.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

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

I always have to be writing.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

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

Time is money.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

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

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

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

I don’t do meetings.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

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.