If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen KingFor what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia WoolfTime is bunk.
Douglas AdamsBeware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin FranklinThe key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen CoveyWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
Robert KiyosakiEvery once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘
Dwayne JohnsonThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph AddisonI believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
Neil ArmstrongWith audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon BonaparteI get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.
Haruki MurakamiTardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo MachiavelliGetting 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?
Joyce MeyerAll great achievements require time.
Maya AngelouPleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William ShakespeareTime 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.
John C. MaxwellIf you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.
Jocko WillinkI have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
Harper LeeNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William JamesTell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.
Dolly PartonOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellIf 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.
J. ColeA career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.
Dolly PartonIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques RousseauFirst thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
Dolly PartonWhen I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘
Jackie ChanLost time is never found again.
Benjamin FranklinIf 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.
Mark TwainAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TolkienMany people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise PascalLet all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Benjamin FranklinI’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.
Gordon RamsayWork ends up dehumanizing people.
Pope FrancisIn dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao TzuI wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William ShakespeareSurely 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.
Samuel JohnsonIt is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.
Eleanor RooseveltThere is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin DisraeliNever put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark TwainTime you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John LennonWhy do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
Florence NightingaleI’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.
Anthony BourdainPlease don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. BushIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Noam ChomskyA minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
John C. MaxwellThe more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhy should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.
Karl LagerfeldTomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin FranklinI can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.
Alice MunroI’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.
Clint EastwoodA lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.
Jocko WillinkThe average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Stephen CoveyI just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan QuayleThere’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.
Tom BradyI want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
Angelina JolieI must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda MeirTomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Marcus Aurelius