Terry J. Lundgren Quotes

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

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

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.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

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.

I love being busy.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

I love a daily deadline.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

People with good work habits have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make themselves do what needs to be done. By contrast, people with poor work habits almost randomly react to the stuff that comes at them, or they can't bring themselves to do the things they need to do but don't like to do (or are unable to do).

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

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.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.