Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

He that rises late must trot all day.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I am results-oriented.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

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

Surely 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.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

A 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.

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 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.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

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

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

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.

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

I’ve never had writer’s block.

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.

Nature does nothing in vain.

I don’t do meetings.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

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

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Yes, 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.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.