Ellen Goodman Quotes

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

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.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

You only have so much time in a day.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

There is always time to take more time.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

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

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 think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

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.

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

I ain't got time to bleed.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

Your greatest resource is your time.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.