Dean Kamen Quotes

Nothing concerns me other than my time. That is my only concern. I don't pay any attention to the rest. I run after time. If that improves, the gold, silver, etc. will follow.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

I hate wasting time.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

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

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

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

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.