Will Rogers Quotes

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.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

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."

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.