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

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

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.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

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

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Action expresses priorities.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

I like to work.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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%.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I love movement. I love moshing.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Lost time is never found again.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

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.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

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

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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.

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

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

He that rises late must trot all day.