Kelley Armstrong Quotes

There are two types of people in this world: people who can be on time and Nigerians. I am in the latter group, and I confess to my inability to arrive anywhere punctually.

I can never be on time anywhere.

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.

I actually have eyes that irritate easily, so I wear the glasses to keep stuff out of my eyes. If you see me in shades indoors, you might be like, 'RZA is wearing shades inside. What the hell is going on?' I'm protecting my eyes, and I'm looking cool.

My eyes are never going to be perfect.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

If a woman waits 10 years to invest, "I'm busy", "I've got to do this", "I can put it off", "I gotta find the right financial..." It costs her $100 a day. $100 a day! And if we had money falling out of her pocketbook at the rate of $100 a day, we'd change our pocketbook; we'd fix our pocketbook.

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

I have a podiatrist appointment at 2.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

Each lost day has its patron saint!

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

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.