Charles William Maynes Quotes

First Things First

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.

I wake up each morning and make my schedule, and when I do, I plan the work around when I'll be able to handle it best.

Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Pay attention to matters of importance.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

There's never enough hours in the day to do what you want to do. What I've become OK with is that not everything can be done today. As long as I can get that time in with my son, then I can get all of the other stuff done today or tomorrow.

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

I wake up in the morning with a list of problems, and I go solve them.

Even though I know I can work out at any point in my day, I set a time that I want to get this workout in by. I set times when I'm waking up and having breakfast. Finding a few things you can stick to in your daily routine is helpful when there's a lot of uncertainty and your scheduling is really off.

When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.

Time management is really important.

For me, it's all about balancing your priorities.

For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too.

I try to block a couple of hours of unscheduled time every day so that I can work on the day's most important projects.

In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

When you're a manager you always have tunnel vision at certain times.