Time Management famous quotes
04-19-2025
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
-- Adam Hochschild -
You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.
-- Al Koran -
Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!! You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.
-- Andrew Dobson -
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.
-- Arthur Golden -
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.
-- Brian Tracy -
The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.
-- Brian Tracy -
You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.
-- Charles Soule -
There's time enough, but none to spare.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt -
How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
-- Dada Vaswani -
Time management is a big part of the director's job.
-- Debbie Allen -
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.
-- Douglas Merrill -
Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.
-- Douglas Merrill -
The way you think you spend your time and the way you actually spend your time are rarely the same.
-- Douglas Merrill -
Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.
-- Douglas Merrill -
Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
-- Ed Bliss -
A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.
-- Ed Bliss -
If you are too busy to exercise, you are too busy.
-- Ed Bliss -
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
-- Edmund Husserl -
Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.
-- Frank Knight -
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
-- James Cash Penney -
It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.
-- James L. Brooks -
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
-- Jim Rohn -
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.
-- John C. Maxwell -
Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
-- John Locke -
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
-- Josh Billings -
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
-- Menachem Mendel Schneerson -
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
-- Mike Murdock -
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.
-- Richard Koch -
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
-- Robert Earl Keen -
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
-- Robin Roberts -
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
-- Saint Augustine -
We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.
-- Sam Huff -
Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
-- Stephen Covey -
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
-- Stephen Covey -
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
-- Thomas Hardy -
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
-- Tillie Olsen -
I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.
-- Tory Burch -
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
-- W. Edwards Deming -
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
-- Warren Buffett -
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
-- William E. Gladstone -
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
-- William Shakespeare -
Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
-- William Wordsworth -
People who are bad at time management. If you say you're going to be somewhere at a certain time, be there!
-- Mike Holloway
