Time Management Quotes - Page 18

• It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Hard Work, Climbing

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

  Stephen Covey

  Volleyball, Thinking, Essence

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• Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Guilt, Important

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.147, Knopf

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• As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

  Shawn Achor

  Loss, Thinking, World

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, Issues, Interesting

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's EW Q&A: From Golden Globe hosts to Darth Vader's moms". Interview with Dan Snierson, www.ew.com. January 10, 2014.

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• Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Horse, Crazy, Moving

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• When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

  Henry Twells

  Time, Children, Men

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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, People, Movement

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.27, Vintage

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• Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Time, Earning

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2015

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• I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

  Tory Burch

  Organization, Priorities, I've Learned

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• The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

  Lee Iacocca

  Motivational, Time, Learning

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.20, Bantam

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• The best way to fill time is to waste it.

  Marguerite Duras

  Time, Work, Way

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.123, Grove Press

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• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  Harold Geneen

  Time, Decision, Management

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• There's time enough, but none to spare.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Time, Enough, Spares

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.240, Xist Publishing

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• I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Views, People

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• There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.

  Hope Powell

  Sports, Football, Team

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

  Rory Vaden

  Self, Management, Self Management

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.25, Penguin

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• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Average, Fifty, Workers

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• The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Challenges, Manage

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.185, Mango Media Inc.

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• Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

  Pericles

  Time, Life And Love, Waiting

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• Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Time, Philosophical

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• It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult.
  I took some time out for life.

  James L. Brooks

  Facts, Accepting, Difficult

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• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Time, Europe, History

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• Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

  Euripides

  Funny, Time, Needs

  "Aeolus". Play by Euripides, 423 BCE.

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• Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Discipline, Mastery

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