James Agate Quotes

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

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the rest of my day is spent doing other things, whether it's spending time with my family, or going through and making notes on the script, or working on the marketing. It's just a matter of scheduling.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

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.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

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.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

You only have so much time in a day.

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.