William Hazlitt Quotes

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

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

We work super hard to not have to work

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Those who work much do not work hard.

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

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

There's never enough time to do nothing!