Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

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?

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

We must use time creatively.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Time is money.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

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

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

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

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

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 don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

He that rises late must trot all day.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

If 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.

Delay is preferable to error.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

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 think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.