The 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.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The future is purchased by the present.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

We must use time creatively.

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

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Lost time is never found again.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

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

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.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

I have wasted my hours.