Oswald Chambers Quotes

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

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.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.

...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

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

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

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

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.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

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

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

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.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

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.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.