Mort Walker Quotes

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly.

Schedule your time. People always ask, 'How do you do it all?' I'm like a walking calendar. I literally make my snacks on a Sunday if I'm traveling on a Tuesday, and I'll pack them before I leave.

People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.

I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.

To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

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.

Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.