Matt Mullenweg Quotes

Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

An awesome thing about starting your own business? There's no one there to tell you what to do! But that, you might quickly discover, is a double-edged sword. If you're not careful, you won't shower for four days straight, and you'll spend half your time researching 'girly, stylish office' on Pinterest instead of getting any real work done.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

Killing time is not an easy job.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)