Sam Hinkie Quotes

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

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 plan my life in 15-minute sections.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

Time management is really important.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I just have to be very, very organised.

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.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

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

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

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.

If you are disciplined, it shows you are organised.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

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

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

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

I pack every minute I can with something to do.