Jonathan Tucker Quotes

I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

There will always be another email to get through; something to clean up, file, and organize; more errands to do. Which is why balance is so important. Life is a marathon, not a sprint.

I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

I don't do what I love to do a lot of the time.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

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 I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

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

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.