Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.
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.
A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.
Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
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.
What we love to do we find time to do.
We all get 24 hours a day. . . It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.
Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.