Tom Daley Quotes

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

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

I am very punctual about time, eating, and work.

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.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I trained myself to be organized.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

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.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

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

I'm a big believer in regularity. My father taught me that. Get up early, get your work done, and that's, what, your highest level of energy before lunch.

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

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.

When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.

I wake up each morning and make my schedule, and when I do, I plan the work around when I'll be able to handle it best.

I am a person who works to deadlines.

I keep a really tight schedule.

I just tell myself I gotta get up at 8 A.M. I don't even use an alarm clock.

Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge.

I plan my time to a 'T.' I plan when I am going to sleep; I plan when I am going to relax. I obviously leave time to have spontaneous life experiences - I think that's really important. But so much of it is setting up you mental energy in the right way to get the most out of your day and time.