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.
Warren BuffettLife being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John RuskinThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George EliotGetting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.
Jocko WillinkWork consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark TwainI 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.
Ludwig van BeethovenTimes and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Walt DisneyRead the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.
Billy GrahamNever do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Amelia EarhartMy biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce LeeEither you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim RohnIt wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
Michelle ObamaThe expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
ConfuciusIt’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert HubbardEverything is generated through your own will power.
Ray BradburyConviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas CarlyleI put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
Taylor SwiftEmploy thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin FranklinNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William JamesThere cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry KissingerOnly those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy GrahamWhen it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
ConfuciusA man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert HubbardWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
Tennessee WilliamsPeople with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian TracyAdjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
Dolly PartonI have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John SteinbeckSurely 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.
Samuel JohnsonWithout doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl MarxProgressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIf you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon BonaparteBetter never than late.
George Bernard ShawI like to work and am a focused person.
Joyce MeyerBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham BellMy interest in creating anything is that it be useful.
Alice WalkerI can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.
Dolly PartonMoney and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel JohnsonA creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTime 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.
Billie EilishI tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.
Angelina JolieLabor gives birth to ideas.
Jim RohnAnd it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve JobsIt takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!
Abby Lee MillerTomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin FranklinSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph AddisonDo the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas CarlyleBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SocratesI think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
Joel OsteenIf you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Fidel CastroThe end of labor is to gain leisure.
AristotleWhile we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas SowellOn the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
Ernest HemingwayThis is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?
Kurt VonnegutFor a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
PlatoI’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
Richard BransonIt was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
DiogenesNothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry FordIn the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James