Isaac Asimov Quotes

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.