I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

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

The Internet is a big distraction.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

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

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

The future is purchased by the present.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

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

If 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.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

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

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

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.

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

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I always have to be writing.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

My 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.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Friends are thieves of time.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

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.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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.

Always do whatever’s next.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

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.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

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.

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

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Never mistake motion for action.

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.