Dan Deacon Quotes

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

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

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

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.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

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

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

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

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

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 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.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

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

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

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

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

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.