David Cameron Quotes

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

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

Sounds cliched, but I can't survive without my calendar.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

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.

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'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I'm doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes.

I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's crammed Post-its.

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.

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

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

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 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.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

I've never been strong with my time-management skills.

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly.

Schedule your time. People always ask, 'How do you do it all?' I'm like a walking calendar. I literally make my snacks on a Sunday if I'm traveling on a Tuesday, and I'll pack them before I leave.