Time Management Quotes - Page 19

• I am always on duty, even when I am at party events or on vacation. I don't complain about it, on the contrary. Time management for candidates without government functions is different than it is for me. No matter where I am, I always have to have my duties as chancellor in mind.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Vacation, Mind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

  Peter Drucker

  Priorities, Needs, Done

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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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• The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Patience, Time, Warrior

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.851, Modern Library

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• City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  Edward Hoagland

  Country, Time, Future

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Greatness, People, Goal

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• Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

  Mark Cane

  Men, Doe, Planning

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• This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

  Kerry Gleeson

  Energy, Preoccupation, Constant

  Kerry Gleeson (2003). “The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• Wasted time means wasted lives.

  Robert R. Shannon

  Life, Time, Mean

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• Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Two, Relaxation, World

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• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  Octavio Paz

  Time, Dies, Bits

  "Cuento de los Jardines" (1968)

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• The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

  Stephen Covey

  Fashion, Time, Philosophy

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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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