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

Never mistake motion for action.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

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

Time is money.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

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.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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

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

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

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?

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

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

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

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I love movement. I love moshing.

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

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.