Tony Buzan Quotes

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

You double your intensity with skill.

One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?