Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

You don't have any days to spare if you want to improve!

That man is idle who can do something better.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

Time is running out on our opportunity to seize our opportunities and solve our problems.

In delay there lies no plenty.

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

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.