Benjamin Franklin 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 like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. 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. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

I just have to be very, very organised.

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

If you are disciplined, it shows you are organised.

As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, and I try to be as productive as possible. Some days, I can devote to one specific thing. Other days, it's a catch-all day.

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.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

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.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

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

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

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.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

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

Time management is really key for me.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

Time management is the mantra of my life.