The future is purchased by the present.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

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.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

All great achievements require time.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Delay is preferable to error.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

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

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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

Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Dissents speak to a future age.

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.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

I don’t do meetings.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

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

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

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.‘

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.