Tom Wolfe Quotes

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 always work from an outline.

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

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

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

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

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.

I trained myself to be organized.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

I am an organization freak!

I'm the total organizer. Everything's got a system. It's in order.

Having a routine makes for a better professional.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

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.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.