Ridley Pearson Quotes

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

When I came back from the military and completed a 4-year degree in 2 1/2 years, I developed the extraordinary habits needed to get a lot done in a very short period of time!

I'm known for having a very small to-do list and a big don't-do list.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

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

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.