People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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.

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

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

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?

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Delay is preferable to error.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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.

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.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

Never mistake motion for action.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

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

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

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

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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Always do whatever’s next.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

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

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

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

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

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

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

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

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.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

Action expresses priorities.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

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

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

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

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

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.