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?

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

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

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

It 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.

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

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

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.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Beware the hobby that eats.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

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.

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

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

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

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Delay is preferable to error.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

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

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

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

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

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.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

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.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.