Randy Pausch Quotes

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Invest time, don't spend it.

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

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.

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

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

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

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

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.

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

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

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.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

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

The most precious resource we have is time.

As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

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

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.