Esther Hicks Quotes

We must use time creatively.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

I hate wasting time.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.

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

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

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