Gerard Way Quotes

I have a timetable, but no routine.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

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.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, and I try to be as productive as possible. Some days, I can devote to one specific thing. Other days, it's a catch-all day.

Time management is really important.

I keep a really tight schedule.

I'm very organized. I have my day-to-day schedule, every 15 minutes, written out.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

Sounds cliched, but I can't survive without my calendar.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.