Kerri Walsh Quotes

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time... I don't want to just sit on my phone for hours.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.

We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

I know that I won't succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.

Anytime anybody goes, "Wow you've been busy." I'm like, "No, not since college. This is a cakewalk in comparison."

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

I'll be very busy, which is all I need.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.