Robert Jordan Quotes

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Take more time, cover less ground.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

You don't have to do it straight away, but just do it before it gets really bad.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.

It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

Leave for tomorrow what you can't do today.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.