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.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Always do whatever’s next.

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

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Time is money.

I 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.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Inaction 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.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

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

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

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 do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

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

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

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Getting 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?

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