Pat Riley Quotes

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

I believe when you say you're going to start a race at 2 p.m. then you should stick to that and start the race at 2 p.m. There's no maybe, could be or should be. You start the race on time. It's very simple.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

I think that [having not a lot of time sweating the details] can be both a strength and a weakness. I think it depends on how [Donald Trump] approaches it. If it gives him fresh eyes, then that can be valuable. But it also requires you knowing what you don't know and putting in place people who do have the kinds of experience and background and knowledge that can inform good decision making.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

Donald Trump probably spends more time getting more things done than many people have any experience with, but yet he's the one undisciplined, he's the one that's haphazard, he's the one who's erratic, he's the one who's unpredictable.

I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to play someone so incredibly different from myself.

A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.

First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.