Louis L'Amour Quotes

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.

Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.” I was totally confused. “In the car?” “In your life,” he said.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the fuel - it's inspiring - so I try to keep the tank full. What happens most of the time is I binge read. I will put aside a day or two to do nothing but read.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

To take an hour or two per day while the kids are in school to read really isn't that tough to do once you get into the routine of it.

I try to read 20 books a year.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

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.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.