Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

Work first, and then rest.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the dance for that song, and then I had to go and shoot a separate scene. That would be one day. So yeah, it was about the value of time and being prepared, and not to freak out.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.