Brian Tracy Quotes

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

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.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

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.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

What has not wasting time impaired?

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

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate my time beneficially.