If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

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

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Time is the least thing we have of.

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

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

A 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.

I 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.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

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

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

Better never than late.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

You may delay, but time will not.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Please 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.

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!

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

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 man should never neglect his family for business.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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.

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

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Time is bunk.