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.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

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

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

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

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

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

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Action expresses priorities.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Better never than late.

All great achievements require time.

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

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

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

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

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

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

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

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

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

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Friends are thieves of time.

One 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.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.