Time is the least thing we have of.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

Always do whatever’s next.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Never mistake motion for action.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

I always have to be writing.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

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

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

If 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.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

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

I have wasted my hours.

I need physics more than friends.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

I often work by avoidance.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Time is bunk.

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.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Love can do much, but duty more.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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.

Short cuts make long delays.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

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

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.