Larry King Quotes

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

I just have to be very, very organised.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.

I don't want to get lost in everything. I just want to keep the same work ethic.

2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.

The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

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.

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

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

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.