Charles Krauthammer Quotes

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

This sounds strange to many people, but I work out for exactly 16 minutes every day, and do so at maximum speed by running 2.5 miles. This keeps me healthy without taking up too much time so I can stay focused on other things. It's one of the most efficient things I do each day.

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do a lot in a day.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.