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.

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

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Every day I pray about all I do.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I have wasted my hours.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

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

I don’t do meetings.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

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

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.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

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.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Lost time is never found again.

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.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

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

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.