The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisYour life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.
Robert GreeneYou can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
Ray BradburyI have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da VinciWith audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon BonaparteHaving unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David ByrneWithout doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl MarxEverywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven WrightEvery man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. ForbesIf 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 WillinkTime is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin DisraeliThe Internet is a big distraction.
Ray BradburyThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckYa know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
Jim CarreySomeone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘
Dolly PartonLabor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham LincolnThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George EliotIf 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.
Dale CarnegieYou have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
Robert FrostPeople love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert EinsteinI worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.
Karl LagerfeldMy justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Amy WinehouseYour greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian TracyI realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
Bob DylanI have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
Kurt CobainI don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Elon MuskLuxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco ChanelI believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.
Brian EnoI’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.
Clint EastwoodRidiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.
Richard BransonWhen I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
Taylor SwiftIt 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.
Stephen HawkingWhen you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
Tom BradyWhat’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerYou may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin FranklinHowever great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Charles SpurgeonIt takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.
Jerry SeinfeldOne 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.
Michelle ObamaNo one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen KellerI like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint EastwoodBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham BellMake measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim RohnProductivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz KafkaI like to work.
Abby Lee MillerGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnI never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
BuddhaHe does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius CiceroInaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale CarnegieWell begun is half done.
AristotleEmploy thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin FranklinLife is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel JohnsonSpeed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyI have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. ThompsonI 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 MunroWe live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
Joyce MeyerThere are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark TwainI’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
Bob DylanIf we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Hippocrates