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

I don’t do meetings.

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?

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

Never mistake motion for action.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

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 future is purchased by the present.

I always have to be writing.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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

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

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

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

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Friends are thieves of time.

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

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

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

I often work by avoidance.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

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

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.

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

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

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

Computers make me totally blank out.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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

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.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.