The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia EarhartTime you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John LennonI’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.
Harper LeeWe don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda MeirIf you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Bruce LeePerhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.
Jim MattisBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham BellHobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George EliotTell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.
Dolly PartonYes, 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.
Karl LagerfeldIf you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
Ray BradburyWork consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark TwainThe military can buy our diplomats some time.
Jim MattisYou can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest HemingwayEvery action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.
Tom BradyOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert HubbardThe assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
David ByrneThe society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert CamusOne of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.
Michelle ObamaThe time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand RussellAs you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
David BowieThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Noam ChomskyThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph AddisonYour greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian TracyWithout music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank ZappaOutsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.
Stephen CoveyI do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.
Clint EastwoodMan 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.
George OrwellI 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.
Alice MunroBy that sin fell the angels.
William ShakespeareI saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.
Steven WrightWar settles nothing.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhen you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William JamesIf you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.
George Bernard ShawI 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 BeethovenCelerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
CleopatraA 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.
Jocko WillinkWhen anger rises, think of the consequences.
ConfuciusWe have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles SpurgeonIn the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou HoltzI never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston ChurchillIf I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
J. ColeTo write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhen someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George CarlinA child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
Benjamin FranklinFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas CarlylePeople who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas SowellI have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.
Vivienne WestwoodOnly those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy GrahamDon’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
Jim MattisFriends are thieves of time.
Francis BaconAnd 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 JobsConcentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham BellCharacter is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert HubbardIt takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas JeffersonIt’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.
Lando NorrisThe less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeThe truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu ReevesIt’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.
Tom BradyThere is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau