It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The 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.

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

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

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

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

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

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

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Time 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.

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

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

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

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Tell 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.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

I can move any crowd.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

I’m not very articulate.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.