Dick Van Dyke Quotes

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I'd rather be busy than not.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

I stay busy, and it feels good.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

Every day has to be a day that counts. It can't be a wasted day. I'm very dedicated to always keep doing something that I would consider good.

I'm someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

There's nothing more powerful than to consider why you're running, no matter what pain you're going through during the race, if you know why you're running, then it'll be more satisfying at the end.