Time Management Quotes - Page 18

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

  Tory Burch

  Organization, Priorities, I've Learned

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you get into the entertainment business, you have to grow up a lot faster, because you're working nine and a half hours a day. I've learned time management at 14-years-old, and I've learned how to do all these different things that some people don't learn until they're in their 20s and 30s.

  Lizzy Greene

  Growing Up, People, Different

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

  Robert Earl Keen

  Selfish, Guilty, Crime

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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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• 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, Use, Management

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• It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Lying, Naps, Down And

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.55, Penguin

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• Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Confusion, Anxiety, Feelings

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.58, Penguin

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• Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Challenges, Management, Manage

  "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". Book by Stephen Covey, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 1989.

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