41 Time management Quotes

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Everything takes longer than you expect - even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

I can only do one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons

Don't count the days, make the days count.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm

It has been my experience that there is no substitute for time where thinking is concerned. Why is it so? The answer seems to be that in many cases to think means to be able to allow the mind to stray from the task at hand. The mind must be able to be 'elsewhere.' This needs time.

Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, How I have wasted half my day, And left my work but just begun.

I have never regretted anything. Regret, like guilt, is a waste of time.

I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.

So from the age of 10, I became anorexic, and then bulimic, and then stayed that way for about twenty years, until one day I just said, Hey, what if this is it? What if this is just what I look like, and nothing I do changes that? So how much time would I save if I stopped taking that extra second every time I look in the mirror to call myself a big fat fuck? How much time would I save if I just let myself walk by a plate-glass window without sucking in my gut and throwing back my shoulders? How much time would I save? And it turns out I save about 97 minutes a week. I can take a pottery class.

Des moments libres. Toute vie bien reglee a les siens, et qui ne sait pas les provoquer ne sait pas vivre.

You can have it all you just can't have it all at one time.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off unnecessary actions.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack at once

procrastination is the art of keeping<up with yesterday

Do not say, 'when I have leisure I will study,' for you may never have leisure.

Mother brings a child late to contact by half-an-hour; father then requires an extra half-hour the next week. This is getting silly. If, in fact, the father does not see the child at all, of course he should see the child on another occasion, but there are fathers who actually add up the minutes and produce it and say 'Now I should have so much more contact because I lost five minutes last week and ten minutes the week before'.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.