Time Management Quotes - Page 3

• Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

  James Cash Penney

  Good Times, Economy, Clock

  James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Time, Morning, Night

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.374, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Men, Hours

  Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”

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• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Time, Made, Made It

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• 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.

  Stephen Covey

  Opportunity, Expectations, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.184, Mango Media Inc.

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• Time management is a big part of the director's job.

  Debbie Allen

  Jobs, Directors, Bigs

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• The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Poison

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

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• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

  Time, Future, Trouble

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Fire, Substance, Tigers

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952”

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• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Morning, Atheist

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Time, Hero, Idols

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• A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Moving

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Good Life, Insperational

  "Goethe's Art of Living".

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• Time is the only critic without ambition.

  John Steinbeck

  Time, Ambition, Judgment

  "Writers at Work, Fourth Series (On Critics)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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• Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Graduation, Time, Years

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses”

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• A day may sink or save a realm.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, May, Realms

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1694, Delphi Classics

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• No time like the present

  Jeffrey Archer

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Jeffrey Archer (2011). “The Prodigal Daughter”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Nature, Philosophical

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• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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• 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!

  Tony Robbins

  Appreciation, Time, Years

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

  Edgar Quinet

  Time, Judging, Judgment

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  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Hilarious

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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